1 Could you tell me who the best driver in the city is? 2 Who do you think the best person to ask about cars is? Isn't it exactly like sentence 4) ? No. Not exactly. The structures are different. who is in an indirect question in 1. who is in

What is the general rule for this kind of phrasing? Invert subject and verb for direct questions. ( Where is the knife ? ) Do not invert for indirect questions. ( I have no idea where the knife is . ) In which room was the thing I was supposed to

Thanks, Amy. Is there any situation the question form is preserved? I remember a thread somewhere in this forum discussed this but I don't know how to find it.

Hi Pter Yes, it's an indirect question, so the usual wording would be Please ask him what his preference is . The sentence itself is a command, not a question, in which the speaker instructs the listener to say this to a third person (i.e.

Is this an indirect question and which one is correct? Please ask him what is his preference? Please ask him what his preference is. Thank you very much.

Hi, It's a verb: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=50715&dict=CALD

1. I don't know what the reasons behind it are . 2. I don't know what are the reasons behind it . The first sentence is grammatical because in an indirect question the subject goes before the finite verb . However, sentences of the

Hello Superblack, The expressions Here... be in British English and There... be in American English with a personal pronoun as subject are used without inversion because there are no reasons for it - it is not a question like Where are you? ,

Thank you CB and Jim. I now know what I have mixed up. Some of the questions were about the subject while some others were about the object. That's it! What is the matter with is particularly problematic because we don't usually use the

That's why I am confused. Yes. It can get confusing. But there's a simple rule. Do not invert subject and verb in an indirect question. (These are also called embedded questions.) Leave these in the same order as in the statement form.