[BEST LESSONS] - Direct & Indirect Questions in English

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  Welcome everybody.

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  Today I'm going to present the most popular post of all time on the Espresso English website,

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  and it 's all about direct and indirect questions.

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  Now, what's the difference between direct questions and indirect questions?

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

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  You can form direct questions using the structure you probably already learned in English class.

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  A question word, plus an auxiliary verb, plus the subject, and then the main verb.

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  Here's an example of a direct question.

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  Indirect questions are a little more formal and polite.

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  We use them when talking to a person we do n't know very well,

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  or in professional situations, and their form is a little different.

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  An example of an indirect question is Could you tell me where the bathroom is?

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  Again, the direct question is Where's the bathroom?

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  And the indirect question is Could you tell me where the bathroom is?

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  There are some typical phrases that we use for starting indirect questions.

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