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
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 A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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 Brainerd Kellogg
An indirect question to one of the clerks helped him to an explanation of this.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
