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
Although direct questions about what was coming were obviously impermissible, an indirect question seemed fairly within the rules.
From The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood
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
The indirect question naturally lacks the force of the direct one, but it may be employed when a less striking form of beginning is desired.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
