By Direct questions, Auxiliaries

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your replying to my stupid question. I really appreciate it. Hi Anon, In contrary, I don’t think your question is stupid. It brings up an issue that has stirred many good discussions in this forum and elsewhere. Here is an extracted text that...

Conjunction Does he know "when" the concert is starting? No. Interrogative pronoun in an indirect question.James had to retype his document "when" his computer crashed OKKevin learned Japanese language "when" he was in Japan OK Verb I "was doing" my homework when the doorbell...

Rex wrote:How exactly these people have got hold of such vast wealth in such a short time is a very good question, and one many ordinary Russians would like answered.It started with 'How' . So there should be a question mark at the end of the sentence.Is it grammatically correct. I am not...

Subject-auxiliary verb inversion is used only in direct questions, not in indirect (embedded) questions. The store opens ... I don't know when the store opens. (No inversion, because it's indirect.) The store does open ... (Expand opens into does open in preparation for the inversion...

Hello KrishI think you are an advanced English learner, maybe more advanced than me. So I was a bit surprised at the fact you are asking such a basic rule. A question form of S V O is made into <Does S V O?> with use of an auxiliary <do>. This rule can be applied even in WH-word...

Thank you very much. As for number 7: I was thinking of sentences like "If you will pardon me for saying so, it's... (it'll be...)" I suppose that "will" is not the auxiliary verb here, but means "are willing to, want to" or something like that; so, it doesn't seem to be a true exception....

"Who am I?" is correct if you are asking a direct question. In indirect speech you might say something like "I wonder who I am." Miriam ------------------------------ ~comes back to edit~ I forgot you asked "why". The verb "to be" doesn't use any auxiliaries in the present simple, so in order...