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Question, why isn't the 'Are' in question A) superfluous?
Question - Are you All Right?
Answer - Because this isn't an extension usage, it suggests the alternatives as a prefixation, preface. It may seem perfectly reasonable to ask more outright, "You alright?" or alternatively, "Alright You?", or is what's being said actually, "Ah You, alright?". Actually, it's none of these, it's something else,
This: "You are all right" or "You are alright", alternatively "All right you are" or "Alright - You are".
See the difference?
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