Which is right?
Why can’t I reach you? or
Why I can’t reach you?
Why can’t I reach you?[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC listening, photographs: A walk in the park[YSaerTTEW443543]
Why can’t I reach you?
is a question
Why I can’t reach you.
is a statement.
Hi Robmars,
is a direct question as in: He asks: Why can’t I reach you? and that needs a question mark (?)
is an indirect question as in: He asks why I can’t reach you and doesn’t need a question mark.
Alan
He may not be asking, he may be telling, in which case it would not be a question at all.
There is a reason why I can’t reach you.
Oh, I thought we were talking about questions and that’s why the question mark is included in the original message.
Yes Alan, I was talking about the questions. Yes, indeed I asked if those questions are in the same meaning. But yeah I did not realize that the “Why I can’t reach you.” is an indirect question and also a statement.
So now it is clear to me that I can use the first question every time I ask a question of why i cannot able to reach someone.
Thank you Torsten, beeesneees, and Alan.