Which is the correct: When time does the play begin? or What time does the play begin?
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What time does the play begin?
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The second one is correct.
"When" has the idea of "what time" already, so it's unnatural/redundant to add the word "time" to "when".
You can change the first sentence of yours into "When does the play begin?" though.
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What time does the play begin ?
It is correct.
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either when does the play begin or what time does the play begin will do
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what time does the play begin ?
or if you want to use "when" you must say :
when the play begins ?
the first one is more formal
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