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

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

An indirect question to one of the clerks helped him to an explanation of this.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

Place a question mark after a direct question, but not after an indirect question.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland