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词汇 indirect-question
释义 indirect question
noun[ C ]
 language specializeduk /ˌɪn.daɪ.rekt ˈkwes.tʃən/ us /ˌɪn.daɪ.rekt ˈkwes.tʃən/
a question that is reported to other people in speech or writing, rather than the exact words of the original question, for example '"He asked me what was wrong."间接疑问(书面或口头表达里,转述他人的疑问,而不是直接提出的原始问题,如“他问我怎么了。”)
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If and whether: indirect questions
We can use if or whether to report indirect yes-no questions and questions with or. If is more common than whether: …

Examples of indirect question


indirect question
That is, the verb has as part of its lexical entry the possibility that it can take an embedded or indirectquestion.
If children do not recognize that a medial wh-word is a subcategorized indirectquestion, 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 indirectquestion, and semantic distinctions among adjuncts themselves.
Of course, it is a very complicated question, indeed it is a kind of indirectquestion.
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When the question is expressed with a subordinate clause, however, it is an indirectquestion.
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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.
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I can understand the proposition that there should be no indirect questions.
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Despite this systematic word order difference across direct and indirect questions, wh-fronting within the clause is occurring in both cases.
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While wh-fronting occurs in both direct and indirect questions, there is a key word order difference that distinguishes between the two.
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Inversion also does not normally occur in indirect questions, where the question is no longer in the main clause, due to the penthouse principle.
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Grammatical structures, such as the lack of inversion in indirect questions, have the flavor of contact with an immigrant language.
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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.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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