Was that he was guilty obvious?

[Randy Alexander]

"Was that he was guilty obvious?"

Do you find the above sentence grammatical or ungrammatical?  In other
words, in your dialect (or idiolect), can you form an interrogative by
inverting a subordinate content clause with an auxiliary?

I find it grammatical, but I know that some find it ungrammatical.  I'm
trying to see if there is a detectable dialectical split over this pattern.

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Randy Alexander
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