Where's his son from then?

[Silverobama]

In tonight's English club, we talked about surrogate mother. Yan shared the story of his uncle. He said his uncle had a son out of the blue one day. His uncle kept telling people (family members, relatives) "I am married, I don't have a girlfriend, I will not marry" then his family members and relatives said "You have a son".

At this time, I asked Yan a question "Where's his son from then?"

Yan said "My uncle found a surrogate mother".

Are my sentence and Yan's sentence natural?

 

[tedmc]

Yes, they are.

 

[emsr2d2]

There's a cultural perspective to this too. In the UK, it wouldn't be comment-worthy if a man without a girlfriend or a wife had a son. There are several possible explanations.

 

[Silverobama]

There's a cultural perspective to this too. In the UK, it wouldn't be comment-worthy if a man without a girlfriend or a wife had a son. There are several possible explanations.

But from the language perspective, are my sentences natural to your native ears?

 

[emsr2d2]

If they weren't, don't you think I'd have said so?

 

[5jj]

"I am married, I don't have a girlfriend, I will not marry"

That's a very odd thing to say.

 

[emsr2d2]

That's a very odd thing to say.

Good catch! As native speakers do so often, I unconsciously added a word ("not" between "am" and "married").

 

[Flask]

In tonight's English club, we talked about surrogate mother. Yan shared the story of his uncle. He said his uncle had a son out of the blue one day. His uncle kept telling people (family members, relatives) "I am married, I don't have a girlfriend, I will not marry" then his family members and relatives said "You have a son".

At this time, I asked Yan a question "Where's his son from then?"

Yan said "My uncle found a surrogate motis supposed to haveher".

Are my sentence and Yan's sentence natural?

I think that, in written English, a comma needs to set off then in the question you ask Yan:

Where's his son from, then?

Given the context, then needs to have inferential (not temporal) meaning there. Then could even be placed at the beginning:

Then where's his son from?

However, in Where's his son from then? (no comma), from then reads as if it were a temporal prepositional phrase—cf.:

Where's his son from that time period?

But temporal meaning is not what you wish to express, given the context you have provided.