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indirect question

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noun

  1. a question reported in indirect speech, as in She asked why you came Compare direct question

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

John was quite unaccustomed to conversation interlarded with quotations from what he had at school irreverently called "rep.," and wondering what manner of man he had to do with he hazarded an indirect question.

From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang

Invent an indirect question and show how it would naturally be inflected.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey

To an indirect question as to the admission of an ambassador from non-Catholic States, which have a large Catholic population, an instant negative was returned.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger

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