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

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

"Why, yes," Anthony replied to the indirect question.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

There was an indirect question in Helen's eyes.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis