By Constructions, Indirect questions

Only one s in present!!! You can't use will with the stative verbs in this construction: } _______Your example with make sure does not belong to the pattern above. There's no indirect question.Make sure (that) you come back soon.A make sure that pattern is not followed by a future...

When I asked this, I thought you might reply that it relates to the term or idea of 'a location'. You surprised me by answering in my grammar the clause in bold is an indirect question, not a relative clause. I don't see it as any kind of question at all. Would you also see I know where the pen...

Rishonly wrote: Anonymous wrote: "i don't know when he'll..."...we can't use "will..". Hi, Your example is fine to me and it doesn't violate any grammar rules. The tricky part is identifying the function of "when" in sentences. If "when" is used as a time adverbial conjunction in a...

Anonymous wrote: "i don't know when he'll..."...we can't use "will..". Hi, Your example is fine to me and it doesn't violate any grammar rules. The tricky part is identifying the function of "when" in sentences. If "when" is used as a time adverbial conjunction in a sentence, then...

Regarding the subject of direct or indirect questions, I have seen on numerous occasions a construction where a direct question ending with a "?" follows a colon. Surely (I'm thinking) that would be an indirect question, so shouldn't end with a question mark, for example: "Throughout...

This is not a mandatory rule. It's something which is often done (thus, to me, optional), per Swan. Which part is not mandatory? I may have misunderstood, but I'm assuming the rule you are referring to is: will cannot be used in a when clause where when is an adverbial conjunction. I...

I've recently learned that the future tense should rarely be used in a "when" or other clause indicating the future The objection to future tense with when (and other subordinating conjunctions of time) only applies to the case where when introduces a subordinate clause (adverbial clause of...

Hello guys I'm a non-native anonymous poster. But I'd like to throw my two cents. Children begin to learn the norm before their linguistic skills are far enough developed to understand a verbal description of what they are learning. This kind of learning has sometimes been called 'imitation',...

"I don't know what ? When I will be ready." Yes. That's exactly the idea. It's probably not the technically correct term, but I lump all those nominal constructions into "indirect questions". I don't know when I will be ready. I have only a vague idea of when he will be ready. We can't imagine...

Use subject-verb inversion and do-support with main clauses which ask questions (unless questioning the subject, of course). Do not use inversion with the corresponding subordinate clauses (indirect questions). Who was he? / Nobody knows who he was. What did you put on the shelf? / I don't...