Direct question
"Could Facebook’s actions towards developers be viewed as RICO offences, the committee asked a Facebook executive."
(The Guardian.)
Is "Could Facebook’s actions towards developers be viewed as RICO offences" a direct question or an indirect one (a sort of inversion) in the sentence above?
Top answer
To me, that sentence does not seem properly written. It seems like a mix-up between direct and indirect speech.
- To me, that sentence does not seem properly written.
- It seems like a mix-up between direct and indirect speech.
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To me, that sentence does not seem properly written. It seems like a mix-up between direct and indirect speech.
0The given sentence seems okay to me. This would be similar to the sentence: Are you and Jamie still going together, I asked Bob. That is, a narrative report of a question that was asked in past time.
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