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Indirect questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 22 05:24:05 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 22 Apr 93 08:47:30 GMT
> From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
> (9) What's an indirect question?
E.g.:-
(a) I asked him when the train to Oxford goes.
(b) I asked him whether he had ever used a laser gun.
(c) I asked him who had painted the fence.
(d) Ask him if he wants dinner or just a cold supper.
These are to be distinguished from relative and if clauses, and they are
translated into Latin differently from relative and if clauses. If the words
"the answer to the question" can be inserted before (what looks like a
relative or if clause) without changing the meaning or making the sentence
ungrammatical, the apparent relative or if clause is actually an indirect
question. E.g. in (c) what I want is not the painter in person but merely
information as to who he is.
