indirect question

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

Place a question mark after a direct question, but not after an indirect question.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland

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)

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