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

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

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

There was an indirect question in Helen's eyes.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis

The introductory whom is an interrogative pronoun, and the clause itself is called an indirect question.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.