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Example Sentences

Aurora replied neither to the direct nor the indirect question.

The indirect quotation is usually introduced by that, and the indirect question by whether or if, or regular interrogatives.

Place a question mark after a direct question, but not after an indirect question.

He had even ventured to put an indirect question about it to Francis Eversleigh, but with no success.

She parried the indirect question without seeming to notice it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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