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Which is best?

Do we need to walk to the supermarket, as we have a car?

OR

Do we need to walk to the supermarket, as we have a car.

Edwin Ashworth
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Daniel Eaton
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I'd suggest to change to:

Since we have car, do we need to walk to the supermarket?

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First of all, placing the question mark after the "as" clause sounds like you should walk to the supermarket because you have a car (although a lot depends on intonation and stress).

Consider:

Do we need to walk to the supermarket, as we don't have a car?

(I see this construction as definitely a question, thus requiring a question mark somewhere, which rules out your second example).

To avoid this, I would restructure, placing the question mark directly after the question clause, in which case the clarification (in this case, the reason you are asking), is separated.

Do we need to walk? As we have a car.

(Note that sentence fragments are best used only informally).

or

As we have a car, do we need to walk?

Otherwise, you can rephrase, using "seeing as" or similar, and be able to keep the structure of your first example:

Do we need to walk, seeing as we have a car?

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