Can you hear what he is...

[Torsten]

Hi Peyman,

You are welcome. How are things in Iran today?
Regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]

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[Torsten]

@Spartanka

@Yankee

Hi Violino

The test sentence is an indirect question:

• Can you hear what he is saying?

The following are direct questions:

• Can you hear him?
• What is he saying?

An indirect question is basically a question within a question. When you have an indirect question, the introductory question will have interrogative word order (Can you hear), but the following clause normally does not.

Here are a couple more examples of indirect questions:

• Do you know when he left the office?
• Can you tell me how much that sofa costs?
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Dear Mr.Torsten,
Could you explain me differences between direct and indirect questions or give more examples? For me it is a little bit hard to feel that difference.
Beforehand, thank you a lot

Hi Spartanka,

Amy has already given very good examples of indirect questions and explained the difference between direct and indirect questions. Which part of her explanation did you not understand and why?

As for more examples of indirect questions, you can create them yourself by starting your questions like this:
Do you know when she …?
Can you tell me why he …?
Did you hear that they …?

Regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]

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[Peyman5019]

Hello Torsten.
How are you ?
you ask me a bout Iran .
The weather is very nice and its spring .
I don’t know where are your country .
every body are busy for election peresident in Iran.
I hope to be situation better .

regards
peyman

[Spartanka]

Hi Torsten!

Thank you for more examples.
Now I understood difference between direct and indirect questions. My mistake was in traslation.

Regards

[Sheshasr]

Thanks Alan,

I always try to to find some logic behind each and every word we use.
This sort of explanation and understanding will make me more confident.

Thanks a ton !!

[Dongocan]

please do this sentence for me: Please … him to come to the blackboard.
a, say
b, talk
c, speak
d,tell
i think “say” is the most intelligent answer!? but i still have my problem!
thx in advance!

[D11]

Hi Dongocan…

More common would be to “tell” someone to do something

[Kardi]

Dear Torsten,
Thank you for your e-mail
I’ve got a good score…

So i’m ooking forward to my next lesson
Thanks

[Hienbtm]

Thank you, now I can distinguish these words

[Paulosomar]

You have to use tell him.
The other options use have to use a proper preposition.
So you speak with, you say or talk to.
see you soon.

[Rodolfo45]

I know there are rules about the use of say and tell.
We use say when we want to say something to somebody. On the other hand, we use tell when we want to tell to somebody, something.
For instance:
I want to say many things to Peter.
Please tell me the truth.

Am I right or wrong about it?

Please,I would thank your important comment.

[Mouhannad]

Many thanks Mr.Alan and Mr.Torstan
I wont to ask about Mr.Torstanexplanation [There are differences between(AMONG) those verbs although their meanings are indeed very similar. Let's take a look] As I know (between) is used when comparing between two things and (among) when its more than two things

[Simsim]

Hy Mr. Alan,
Thanks for your explanation about these similar verbs which express the same meaning…so I could understood better your meaning through those sentence…It helped me a lot.

[Ghani]

Hi to all

Thank you for this web site my language native is Arabic , I choose talking but it,s incorrect
please help me to improve my English language

thanks

[AlineMiguel]

Hi my name is Aline.I’m from Brazil and I live in Rio de Janeiro

[Armaity]

saying

[Hansi2]

@Alan

@Bob

Hello everyone and Alan,

The options are:
(a) saying
(b) speaking
(c) telling
(d) talking

I was wondering if someone could summarize the differences among these similar words. Is it absolutely impossible to use a word other than the correct one? How does the native speakers feel if I use the wrong word?

Hi Bob,

Just to add something to what Torsten has said, I have made a sentence which icludes these 4 verbs, which you may find useful:

As I was SAYING (using words to describe something) before you came in the room, I was TELLING the others (informing them/this verb usually has an object) about John who is SPEAKING (giving a speech) tonight at the club and we were TALKING (having a conversation) about the possibility of going to listen to him.

Best wishes

Alan

[Amul]

thank u

[Esha21]

hello yankee
Please tell me, whether following examples are right or not?

example of indirect question

Can you tell me the way of railway station?
Can you tell me what is the distance of railway station from here ?

Direct question.
Do you know the way to bus stand ?
Do you know the distance of between bus stand to college ?

I think am confuse … Please clear it

Do you kow

[Bhagya2]

Hi Allen…your explanation is gud…