Indirect questions

What's an indirect question? Indirect questions are a more polite way to ask for information or make requests. We often use them when asking something of strangers or people we do not know well, including coworkers. We also use them when asking for favors from friends or when we want to avoid sounding demanding.

1. What is an example of an indirect question?
2. How do you use indirect questions?
3. What are direct and indirect questions?
4. Is an indirect question a statement?
5. What are indirect examples?
6. What is indirect questioning method?
7. What is used to end an indirect question?
8. What is an example of direct question?
9. What is indirect questioning method?
10. What does an indirect question end with?
11. What is difference between indirect and direct?

What is an example of an indirect question?

Indirect questions start with a phrase like 'could you tell me...' or 'do you know...'. For example: Direct question: Where is the bank? Indirect question: Could you tell me where the bank is?

How do you use indirect questions?

In indirect questions the order is subject + verb. There are other expressions that follow the same rule: I don't know what he is doing here. I wonder when he will find the truth.

What are direct and indirect questions?

A direct question is considered to be very direct and informal. They are normal questions that we can ask friends, family members, and people who we know well. An indirect question is considered to be more formal and polite. We normally ask people who we do not know or have a relationship with an indirect question.

Is an indirect question a statement?

Indirect questions are worded like statements not questions.

What are indirect examples?

In English grammar, an indirect object is the word or phrase that receives the direct object. In the sentence The teacher gave the students cake, the indirect object is the students. The direct object is cake, and the students are the ones who eat it.

What is indirect questioning method?

Indirect questioning is a projective technique that asks subjects or respondents to answer structured questions from the perspective of another person or group (Anderson 1978; Calder and Burnkrant 1977; Haire 1950; Robertson and Joselyn 1974).

What is used to end an indirect question?

Direct questions

The question mark is used at the end of a direct question. Indirect questions take a period.

What is an example of direct question?

A direct question is a question that can be answered (i.e., it is not a statement) and always ends in a question mark. For example: Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person? Do you fold your pizza when you eat it?

What is indirect questioning method?

Indirect questioning is a projective technique that asks subjects or respondents to answer structured questions from the perspective of another person or group (Anderson 1978; Calder and Burnkrant 1977; Haire 1950; Robertson and Joselyn 1974).

What does an indirect question end with?

Thomas S. Kane: Indirect questions do not close with a question mark but with a period. Like direct questions, they demand a response, but they are expressed as declarations without the formal characteristics of a question. That is, they have no inversion, no interrogative words, and no special intonation.

What is difference between indirect and direct?

Direct: She said, 'I am happy'. Indirect: She said (that) she was happy. In indirect speech, tenses do not change if the words used within the quotes ('') talk of a habitual action or universal truth.