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

To an indirect question as to the admission of an ambassador from non-Catholic States, which have a large Catholic population, an instant negative was returned.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

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

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

An indirect question is not generally set off by a comma, does not necessarily begin with a capital letter, and is not inclosed within quotation marks.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd