Name: How to Express Problems in English - Basic English Phrases
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T10:06:05.000Z
Duration: 29 min 53 s
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My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about how to express problems.

The Focus grammar point is going to be embedded questions, embedded questions and embedded question is like a question inside another question or incite a statement.

So I'm going to talk about how you can use these and how to make these to ask for help and to explain problems.

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And please also make sure to like and share the video so that other people can find today's lesson Today, I'm going to talk about expressing problems with embedded questions.

So I'm going to share the video, actually, and then I'm going to begin today's topic.

Then I'm going to begin today by explaining first, what is an embedded question?

I'm going to talk about how to make embedded questions.

Embedded questions have kind of special grammar there, a little bit different from a basic question.

So I'm going to explain how to make them.

And then, third, I'm going to talk about some common patterns that we used with embedded questions.

So, uh, first, what is an embedded question?

I mentioned embedded embedded questions are questions inside another question.

So, for example, online, you might see like an embedded video in a blogger post.

So that means the video is inside a block post.

Therefore, a nem bedded question in grammar is a question inside a statement or inside a question so we use embedded questions to make ourselves sound a little bit softer or when we want to kind of asked two questions at the same time.

This is what we use embedded questions to D'oh!

Okay, so let's take a look at some examples of statements and questions that use this grammar.

And then I'm going to talk about how we make these so some examples, these air embedded questions.

The embedded question in each of these is underlined.

I've underlined the question inside the statement or inside the question.

So 1st 1st example is, Do you know who stole my coffee?

This is like the basic things, like the original question we have.

The thing we want to know is who stole my coffee?

We put it inside this other question to ask that person if they know something.

So here you can kind of clearly, I hope, see this question inside another one.

But let's compare this then to the next example.

This one's not a question, but it's actually a statement.

So this example is I can't remember what my password is.

I can't remember what my password is so here.

What my password is this is the part that's like the embedded question or the problem that we need to solve.

And we state kind of the bigger issue with this.

So I'm going to talk about why this part of the sentence looks like this.

To there's some special grammar rules happening here and here.

Actually, third example Sentence for this grammar is I wonder when my parents are going to arrive.

I wonder when my parents are going to arrive.

So again, the underlined part here is the embedded question.

So when my parents are going to arrive again, you'll notice this is different from a basic question.

When we want to ask this question, we would say it.

But again, we have some special grammar to consider here.

I'll talk about this also in part two fourth example.

Uh, can you tell me where I submit this form?

So to submit means like to turn something in.

Can you tell me where I submit this form Where I turn in this form?