indirect question

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“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.