Indirect question

Hello Hanuman

This car is yours. -> Which car is yours? [subject : which car]
Indirect question: Can you tell me which car is yours.

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Which car is yours?-Is it a direct question?

Yes it is. An indirect question would be:

She asked me which car was mine.


(I told her it was the red Porsche Carrera GT.)

Hello MM,

Which car is yours?

In the above question, Subject + Verb order has been used. Is it OK to use to S+V order in direct questions? Thanks in advance.

I suppose that it depends (on what, I don't know offhand).

What time is it?
Which thief stole my hubcaps?
What kind of person would willlfully scratch a man's Porsche?
Your car is red, isn't it?
What happened to my fender?

Thanks, MM. I will further study on this topic and get back to you with some additional questions.

The usual interpretation of "Which car is yours?" puts "which car" in the subject position.
That gives the indirect question in 2. (Can you tell me which car is yours?)

However, this is an equative sentence (X is Y), and there is often an interpretation of such sentences which puts the last element ("yours") in the subject position.
That gives the indirect question in 3.