indirect question
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“As a talent evaluator, if the indirect question is, ‘Is Diego good enough to play at the top level in Europe?’
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2021
At the Toronto news conference, a moderator paid by Searchlight mostly kept the focus on the movie, asking just one indirect question about the assault.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2017
This caution is worth particular heed when the lead contains a single-sentence quotation, an indirect question, or a paragraph of direct statement from somewhere in the body of the speech.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
Place a question mark after a direct question, but not after an indirect question.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
An indirect question to one of the clerks helped him to an explanation of this.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
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