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
Note.—When the main sentence which introduces an indirect question is itself interrogatory, a question mark follows.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland
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
The introductory whom is an interrogative pronoun, and the clause itself is called an indirect question.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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