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Hi Newguest

I don't really like any of them very much because there are much easier (and less awkward) ways to ask the same question. To me, the second one is the worst of the three you posted.

Why not just say this:

- I'd like to ask how much I should pay for the course.

OR this:

- I'd like to ask what the price for the course is.

Yankee- I'd like to ask what the price for the course is.


Hi

So you like the one with "is" at the very end.

I suppose: I'd like to ask: what is the price for the course? is also OK, but there has to be a colon.

cheers

Hi Newguest

Yes, I prefer it at the end. In longer, more complex sentences, sometimes people will move the verb to its usual place (i.e. the place it would normally be if it were not an indirect question). However, "I'd like to ask what the price for the course is" is not long/complex enough for me to feel any need whatsoever to use the word "is" right after the word "what".

Yankee

NewguestI suppose: I'd like to ask: what is the price for the course? is also OK, but there has to be a colon.

Well, there's nothing technically wrong with writing it that way, but why make things more complicated than they need to be?

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