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

Count Arnau appeared not to have heard the indirect question, at least he gave no answer.

From Herman A Novel by Werner, E.

If any indirect question were ever thrown upon the family position, Agatha immediately began expounding the ethics of high breeding, as one who had attained.

From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

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