By Indirect questions, Grammar

Hi pjyrdoHere are my comments:1. The word order is not the most natural. The time aspect is more typical at the end: "I don't know what I should do for three hours."2. 'In three hours' is frequently used to refer to a point in time that is three hours from now. (e.g....

Hi But these sites http://www.eslbase.com/grammar/indirect-questions http://www.eslau.ca/lesson/unit13.php in my opinion say something else. What did she tell her?

Indirect questions can be either questions within questions (as in your example) or questions within reported speech (as in your friend's example).Look at this link:http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/indirect_questions.html

Kooyeen wrote:I think I've never seen a question mark in those kind of sentences... non natives maybe put it at the end. Maybe natives do too, but because they can't write, not because they don't know English and can't speak.How come you haven't? Oh, I have seen them so many times in the Grammar...

I think I've never seen a question mark in those kind of sentences... non natives maybe put it at the end. Maybe natives do too, but because they can't write, not because they don't know English and can't speak. Pucca wrote:I wouldn't put the question mark either, but, if that makes the speech...

Unfortunately, this is an area of English which may be slowly undergoing a change. Not only do non-native speakers have difficulty with it, but a surprising number of educated native speakers seem to be using the inverted structure "incorrectly" more and more. It is so prevalent that some...

Clive wrote:The bottom line, of course, is that any of these systems is OK as long as it provides a tool that someone finds useful in learning to speak good English. Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to? When I asked this, I...

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...

Hi CB, I share many of the basic opinions you have expressed. I, too, learned my grammar as a schoolboy. I think that in many ways, we spend the rest of our lives as 'prisoners' of what we originally learned. As you do, and although I teach English for a living, I often see grammatical...

Clive wrote:Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to?Hi CliveI learned my grammatical terminology as a schoolboy and as far as I can remember most of the terms I learned were applicable to all the languages I studied. There were/are...