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
The introductory whom is an interrogative pronoun, and the clause itself is called an indirect question.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
John was quite unaccustomed to conversation interlarded with quotations from what he had at school irreverently called "rep.," and wondering what manner of man he had to do with he hazarded an indirect question.
From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert
