REPORTED QUESTION


Meaning of REPORTED QUESTION in English

(~s)

A ~ is a question which is reported using a clause beginning with a word such as ‘why’ or ‘whether’, as in ‘I asked her why she’d done it’. (BRIT)

= indirect question

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