indirect question

Example Sentences

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“As a talent evaluator, if the indirect question is, ‘Is Diego good enough to play at the top level in Europe?’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2021

At the Toronto news conference, a moderator paid by Searchlight mostly kept the focus on the movie, asking just one indirect question about the assault. 

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2017

Note.—When the main sentence which introduces an indirect question is itself interrogatory, a question mark follows.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland

An indirect question to one of the clerks helped him to an explanation of this.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

This caution is worth particular heed when the lead contains a single-sentence quotation, an indirect question, or a paragraph of direct statement from somewhere in the body of the speech.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)