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I need help from a native speaker. Which of these questions do you not use?
1. Are you nuts?
2. How is that?
3.Make yourself clear
4.What is the use of?
5. Why worry him?
6. Coming along?
7. No fooling?
8.So what is the hitch?
9. What is it to you
10. Are you out of your mind?
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I agree with Michael that they are all in use. It's just that most of them would sound a lot more natural if represented with the contractions of everyday speech:
1. Are you nuts?
2. How is that? How's that? (in a situation where you are asking someone to repeat or confirm something - usually you know what they said, you just can't believe it. "I was down at the store and I met a space alien." "How's that?" -- in a situation where you are asking someone about a restaurant dish they are eating, for example, it would be normal to use the uncontracted "How is that?", with a slight stress on 'is')
3.Make yourself clear - though more commonly used in first person: "Let me make myself clear..."
4.What is the use of? - not with of, if this is the whole sentence. You could say "What's the use?". If 'of' is used, we need an object for the preposition: "What's the use of calling if nobody's home?"
5. Why worry him?
6. Coming along?
7. No fooling? Probably more likely to be represented as an exclamation rather than a question, and often represented with a dropped 'g': "No foolin'!" The speaker could use it to emphasize that they are telling the truth, or the listener could use it to ask the speaker to confirm that something is true, but it's understood the listener accepts that it is true and doesn't really expect an answer. Compare this to "Really?" (or, more common today, "For real?") which is similarly asking for confirmation of truth, but is usually spoken with the intonation of a question.
8.So what is the hitch? So what's the hitch?
9. What is it to you What's it to you? (This one desperately needs the contraction - it sounds absurd without it!)
10. Are you out of your mind?
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Thank you!!
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These are all in use.
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7, 9
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1,7,9
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