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

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

(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 (

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

In a psychotherapy session, it is very important to begin the interview with an open-ended question. Through this type of questioning, I can find out about Nora's past. For example the question I asked Nora was “where did you get those

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