Name: Indirect Questions - 6 Minute Grammar
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T06:51:15.000Z
Duration: 6 min 11 s
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Hello and welcome to Six Minute Grandma with me, Katherine and Me, Rob.

And today we're talking about indirect questions that's right.

We'll tell you what they are, how to make them on when to use them.

And there'll be a quiz at the end of the show.

Rob goodness already on that question uses normal question.

But there's another way to ask that question.

This is a much more polite way of asking a question.

It's called on in direct question, and it has two parts.

The first part is the phrase Could you tell me on the second part is the question word, what with the information we want to know.

And there are lots of phrases that we can use for the first part of an indirect question here are some examples.

Would you mind telling me how this machine works?

Now, let's get a closer look at the second part of indirect questions.

And it's important to note that we don't use question word order.

The subject and the verb are in the same order as they are in statements.

So its subject it plus verb is Listen out for the statement.

So listen out for that On also, listen out for the two words that come after the part.

One phrases Do you know if this coffee is for everyone?

Do you know if the canteen opens for breakfast?

Do you know whether I can use this computer one more time?

Do you know if this coffee is for everyone?

Do you know whether I can use this computer?

But whether it is a bit more formal than if six minutes from BBC learning english dot com on dhe we're talking about indirect questions That's right on.

We use indirect questions a lot in English, especially when we're talking to people we don't know.

There are two types of indirect questions.

Where, when, why and how and those that use if or whether but all in direct questions have the same word order of statements they do now.

Did a package arrive for me this morning?

The first question was in the present simple tents.

We had the auxiliary does with the verb finish, and the second question was in the simple past, with the auxiliary did on the verb arrive.

Can you tell me if this program finishes soon?

Could you tell me if a package arrived for me this morning?

Or did in the indirect questions in the first question, it's finishes in the present.

And in the second question, it's arrived in the past.

Now it's quiz time number one, which is correct.

Is it a Can you tell me where the coffee machine is?

Can you tell me where is the coffee machine?

And it's a Can you tell me where the coffee machine is?

Do you know if this machine does give change be?

Do you know if this machine gives change and it's B.

Do you know if this machine gives change on number three A.

Have you any idea what the time is, or B have you any idea what is The time is on.

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