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
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 Juliet Helena Lumbard James
Place a question mark after a direct question, but not after an indirect question.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
There was an indirect question in Helen's eyes.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Frank Lewis Nason
