Direct Vs Indirect Questions

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This is a sentence that starts with a question word, such as whom, who, what, where, which, why, whose, when or how. It is followed by a question mark at the end. There are other forms of interrogative questions, such as yes/no questions, indirect questions and tag questions.  [Read more]

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