Espresso English Podcast

001 - Direct and Indirect Questions in English

9 min • 11 januari 2015

Direct questions are the “normal” questions that we can ask to friends, family members, and people who we know well. 

Example of a direct question:“Where’s the bathroom?”

Indirect questions are a little more formal and polite. We use them when talking to a person we don’t know very well, or in professional situations, and their form is a little different.

Example of an indirect question:“Could you tell me where the bathroom is?”

In today's lesson, you'll learn how to form indirect questions in English - phrases to use, and the changes in sentence structure that make them different from direct questions.

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