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    Indirect Questions

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    The document discusses indirect questions in English. It explains that indirect questions are questions asked in a polite way, without using question inversion as in a direct question. Indirect questions are commonly started with phrases like "can you tell me" or "do you know" followed by the content of the question. Indirect questions are very common in English, especially when speaking to someone you don't know well, as they are considered more polite than direct questions.

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    The document discusses indirect questions in English. It explains that indirect questions are questions asked in a polite way, without using question inversion as in a direct question. Indirect questions are commonly started with phrases like "can you tell me" or "do you know" followed by the content of the question. Indirect questions are very common in English, especially when speaking to someone you don't know well, as they are considered more polite than direct questions.

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    The document discusses indirect questions in English. It explains that indirect questions are questions asked in a polite way, without using question inversion as in a direct question. Indirect questions are commonly started with phrases like "can you tell me" or "do you know" followed by the content of the question. Indirect questions are very common in English, especially when speaking to someone you don't know well, as they are considered more polite than direct questions.

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    Indirect Notice that in the indirect question I put the verb ('is') after the subject
    Questions: ('the bank'), in the same way as I do with a normal positive sentence ('the
    bank is over there'), but in the direct question I put the verb 'is' before the
    subject 'the bank'. This is called inversion, and it is used to make direct
    questions in many verb tenses in English, but we don't use inversion in
    indirect questions. This is very similar to the grammar of reported questions.
    However, we use indirect questions in a different way from reported
    questions. Indirect questions are a way of being polite. They are very, very
    common in English, especially when you're talking to someone you don't know.

    Use indirect questions when I'm asking for help in the


    street, because they are very polite. Indirect questions
    start with a phrase like 'could you tell me...' or 'do you
    know.

    Use Indrect Questions can be started in different ways:

    - Can you tell me ...?

    - Could you tell me ...?

    - Do you know ...? Among other.


    We have the direct question 'What time is it?' And to make
    it indirect, we put for example:

    Can you tell me + question word + subjet + verb? What time


    is it?
    Examples:

    1-"Where's the station?"

    "Can you tell me where the station is?

    2-"Are you coming to the party?"

    "Can you let me know if you're/are coming to the party?

    3-"How does it work?"

    "Can you explain (to me) how it works?"

    4-"What's the the matter?"

    Please tell me what the matter is?"

    5-"Where are you from?"

    "I'd like to know where you are from?"

    6-"How long does it take to get there?"

    "Do you know how long it takes to get there?"

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