indirect question

"There are indirect questions asked of both sides," he said.

You asked me an indirect question, that day on the ski mountain, about the father of my daughter.

"You have to use indirect questions, like taking a detour."

The question mark is not used for indirect questions.

The subscripts indicate a central word order difference across direct and indirect questions.

Indirect questions often take the form of a provocative quotation you are asked to discuss.

She devised a shrewd indirect question: "Do you feel that some people are getting more than their fair share?"

Although direct questions about what was coming were obviously impermissible, an indirect question seemed fairly within the rules.

These particles are also used to introduce an indirect question:

We ask indirect questions so that we do not cause offence or impose on other people.

The order of the verb and the subject in an indirect question is the same as a direct question.

The sluicing illustrated with these two sentences has occurred in indirect questions.

(The English word whether has a similar function, but only in indirect questions.)

Which indirectly answers your indirect question: he is powerful enough that he does not have to leave.

Inversion also does not normally occur in indirect questions.

Indirect questions do not necessarily follow the same rules of grammar as direct questions.

The same forms (though not usually the emphatic ones) are used to make indirect questions:

Indirect questions are introduced by either (a)su 'if, whether' or a wh-expression, depending on the kind of question.

While wh-fronting occurs in both direct and indirect questions, there is a key word order difference that distinguishes between the two.

Despite this systematic word order difference across direct and indirect questions, wh-fronting within the clause is occurring in both cases.

Prithee was almost always used as a parenthesis in order to introduce indirect questions and requests.

The following two subsections consider wh-movement in indirect questions and relative clauses.

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages in questionnaire construction of direct and indirect questions?

Indirect questions can serve as adjective and noun complements.

Sluicing usually elides everything from a direct or indirect question except the question word.