{"id":73946,"date":"2020-04-13T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73946"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:02:24","slug":"indirect-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/indirect-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Indirect Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b>indirect question<\/b>\u00a0is really not a question at all. In a\u00a0<b>direct question<\/b>, we put the auxiliary verb before the subject. If there is no <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/primary-auxiliary-verbs\/\">auxiliary verb<\/a>, we put\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/do-as-an-ordinary-verb-and-an-auxiliary-verb\/\">do<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>before the <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/subject-and-predicate\/\">subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have arrived. (Statement)<\/li>\n<li>Have they arrived? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<li>It is cold. (Statement)<\/li>\n<li>Is it cold? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<li>She promised to come. (Statement) (No auxiliary verb, so we have to use a form of\u00a0<b>do<\/b>\u00a0in the corresponding question.)<\/li>\n<li>Did she promise to come? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an\u00a0<b>indirect question<\/b>, the auxiliary verb does not come before the subject; nor does it use the auxiliary\u00a0<b>do<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why\u00a0<b>don\u2019t you\u00a0<\/b>listen to me? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<li>I wonder why\u00a0<b>you don\u2019t<\/b>\u00a0listen to me. (Indirect question)<\/li>\n<li>Where\u00a0<b>are you<\/b>\u00a0going? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<li>I would like to know where<b>\u00a0you are<\/b>\u00a0going. (Indirect question)<\/li>\n<li>When\u00a0<b>does he\u00a0<\/b>propose to start? (Direct question)<\/li>\n<li>I want to know when\u00a0<b>he proposes\u00a0<\/b>to start. (Indirect question)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do not use question marks after an\u00a0<b>indirect question<\/b>. Indirect questions cannot stand alone. They are always used as part of a bigger sentence.<\/p>\n<h3>Exercise<\/h3>\n<p>Turn the following direct questions into indirect using the introductory clauses given.<\/p>\n<p>1. (I would like to know) \u2018What are your plans?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>2. (He wants to know) \u2018Why do the French eat frogs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3. (I wonder) \u2018Why don\u2019t you listen to me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4. (I still can\u2019t figure out) \u2018What does she want?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5. (Can you tell me whether) \u2018Is that true?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><b>Answers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. I would like to know what your plans are.<\/p>\n<p>2. He wants to know why the French eat frogs.<\/p>\n<p>3. I wonder why you don\u2019t listen to me.<\/p>\n<p>4. I still can\u2019t figure out what she wants.<\/p>\n<p>5. Can you tell me whether that is true? (This sentence is itself a question. So we use a question mark after it.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Note<\/b>: You can use your own introductory clauses. But be sure that the sentence makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0indirect question\u00a0is really not a question at all. In a\u00a0direct question, we put the auxiliary verb before the subject. If there is no auxiliary verb, we put\u00a0do\u00a0before the subject. Read the following sentences. 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