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Rajesh jain Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Indirect question

Is it correct?
How many times you are going to write the same thing again and again. Please think of something new.
  

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IMHO: Direct: How many times are you going to write the same old thing again and again ? Indirect: I want to know how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again . / Please tell me how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again .

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  • IMHO: Direct: How many times are you going to write the same old thing again and again ?
  • Indirect: I want to know how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again .
  • / Please tell me how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again .
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IMHO:

Direct: How many times are you going to write the same old thing again and again?

Indirect: I want to know how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again. /

Please tell me how many times you are going to write the same old thing again and again.
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Can I use this direct form even when I am not expecting an answer from another person and just want to criticise him?
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Are you referrng to so-called rhetorical questions? (The kind of question to which you do not expect an answer. For

example: Why can't people be nicer to one another?)

I think the answer to your question is YES.

I guess that it would super rude to say: "Stop saying that over and over again!"

So I guess that it would less rude to put the order in the form of a
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