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
Whether or not Helen grasped the fact that her indirect question of Elijah remained unanswered, she pursued it no farther.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis
But whichever tense be used in the summary, a past tense in indirect discourse or in indirect question remains unchanged.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
Invent an indirect question and show how it would naturally be inflected.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale
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