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Allthewayanime Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Indirect questions

How can I distinguish indirect questions from the direct ones?
  

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Hi " Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period. Like direct questions, they demand a response, but they are expressed as declarations without the formal characteristics of a question. That is, they have no inversion, no interrogative words, and no special intonation.

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  • Hi " Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period.
  • Like direct questions, they demand a response, but they are expressed as declarations without the formal characteristics of a question.
  • That is, they have no inversion, no interrogative words, and no special intonation.
  • ' (a direct question).
  • ' That is an indirect question.
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"Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period. Like direct questions, they demand a response, but they are expressed as declarations without the formal characteristics of a question. That is, they have no inversion, no interrogative words, and no special intonation. We can imagine, for example, a situation in which one person asks another, 'Are you goin
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prajwalkrHi
"Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period. Like direct questions, they demand a response, but they are expressed as declarations without the formal characteristics of a question. That is, they have no inversion, no interrogative words, and no special intonation. We can imagine, for example, a situation in which one person asks
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prajwalkr"Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period.
Not always true. A question mark is needed if there's a direct question in the main clause: Can you tell me where he went?
prajwalkrthey have no inversion,
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