It's an indirect question . " Who is the culprit ? " " Where are you staying ? " " How great is a mother's love ? " That's the question order, and other languages preserve it in an indirect question, English doesn't.
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The psychiatrist then returns, and attempts to diagnose the collective illness by asking indirect questions to each patient in turn ( " Do you prefer the daytime or the nighttime ? " rather than " Is your illness related to light ? " ).
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If the romantic partners were asked indirect questions, however, such as how suspicious they were, or if they got enough information from their partners, the answers revealed that at some level they had picked up the deception, and picked it up better than strangers did.
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The tense of the subjunctive is controlled by the rules of the so called " Sequence of Tenses ", ie . it depends for its sequence on the tense of the matrix verb of asking, perceiving etc . by which the Indirect Question is introduced:
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Because " prithee " eventually came to be used in the same context with the word " you ", it is considered to have developed into a monomorpheme . " Prithee " was almost always used as a parenthesis in order to introduce indirect questions and requests.
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Interrogative content clauses, often called "'indirect questions "', can be used in many of the same ways as declarative ones; for example, they are often direct objects of verbs of cognition, reporting, and perception, but here they emphasize knowledge or lack of knowledge of one element of a fact:
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Vivid future conditional ( future perfect indicative in the protasis, direct question with future indicative in the apodosis; protasis is changed to perfect or pluperfect subjunctive, according to the rules of the Sequence of tenses; apodosis similarly is changed to indirect question with the periphrastic-usus sim / essem ):
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An indirect question is expressed by changing the mood of the main verb from indicative to subjunctive ( But in the case of rhetoric questions it is normal in some cases for the verb to be changed to the accusative plus infinitive, as if it were a real declarative statement in the direct speech ).
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An example of an indirect question is " where Jack is " in the sentence " I wonder where Jack is . " Note that English and many other languages do not use inversion in indirect questions, even though they would in the corresponding direct question ( " Where is Jack ? " ), as described in the following section.
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An example of an indirect question is " where Jack is " in the sentence " I wonder where Jack is . " Note that English and many other languages do not use inversion in indirect questions, even though they would in the corresponding direct question ( " Where is Jack ? " ), as described in the following section.
