Examples of indirect question

• That is, the verb has as part of its lexical entry the possibility that it can take an embedded or indirect question.

• If children do not recognize that a medial wh-word is a subcategorized indirect question, then they will treat it as a real question.

• However other aspects of wh-movement are not completely controlled at 4 or 5 years, such as the status of the indirect question, and semantic distinctions among adjuncts themselves.

• Of course, it is a very complicated question, indeed it is a kind of indirect question.

• When the question is expressed with a subordinate clause, however, it is an indirect question.

• However, all scales demonstrate cultural specificity and rely upon measuring loneliness via indirect questions relating to direct social engagement.

• Customers sought advice from pharmacy staff, asking both direct and indirect questions about diabetes management.

• Nonetheless, all demonstrate cultural specificity and rely upon indirect questions about social engagement.

• The report covers the widest questions of policy, the expenditure of nearly £200,000,000, and indirect questions of administration.

• I can understand the proposition that there should be no indirect questions.

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

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

• Inversion also does not normally occur in indirect questions, where the question is no longer in the main clause, due to the penthouse principle.

• Grammatical structures, such as the lack of inversion in indirect questions, have the flavor of contact with an immigrant language.

• The relative pronouns have fronted in the subordinate clauses of the b-examples, just like they are fronted in the indirect questions in the previous sections.