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Example sentences for "direct question"

  • An indirect question expresses the substance of a direct question in the form of a subordinate clause.

  • A question expressed in the form actually used in asking it is called a direct question.

  • He has come to make me ask him a direct question.

  • To Virginsky's direct question, "Should they go or not?

  • She was afraid to ask Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch a direct question.

  • A direct question is one that can be answered.

  • They are sometimes used to modify nouns when a direct question is not asked, and they are then used, not as interrogative adjectives, but as indefinite adjectives.

  • I am asking a direct question to which you can give an answer; but if I say, I wonder why you do not study, I have asked an indirect question which does not require a direct answer.

  • And Pratt turned, too--with a keen look and a direct question.

  • And Nesta, having listened carefully to all he had to tell, put a direct question to him.

  • Five minutes later, having provided Murgatroyd with rum and water and a cigar, he turned on him with a direct question.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct question" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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