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

Thanks, Avangi and Gleb! 'Who' and 'what', as interrogative pronouns, can serve as subjects, I agree. That's what I meant when I said that they take the subjective case (other than 'when', 'where', etc., those

(continued) 2. You have rightfully broadened the scope of the discussion by questioning the very reasonability of using these correlative coordinators. Indeed, as E. S. C. Weiner once pointed out, a sentence containing correlative coordinators (

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.

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

The term Arte Povera was introduced in a time where artists were taking a radical stance at the end of the sixties. As in the rest of Europe and North America, the late sixties was a period of social upheaval in Italy. Artists began attacking the

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

Vincent, Everyone is trying to help you and you are questioning the answers repeatedly. Why? Your questions are so vauge and poorly formed that we have to guess what you meant. We gave you a lot of good pointers but you are not using them in

Hi Eddie The problem with your sentences is that because you did not add something such as "He asked" or "She wanted to know" at the beginning of the indirect question, you have incomplete sentences. Look at my corrections and

These all look OK to me, apart from "When did you realise that you are an adult?", which would almost always be better as "When did you realise (that) you were an adult?". There are also some potentially dubious uses of the