Five years in a row, the patent examiner rejected it,” he said. “But you can tell by now (that) I don’t like to give up, so I started to think about how could we convince the examiner to approve it.”
Should it be “how we could convince the examiner to approve it”?
Thanks.
For five years in a row, the patent examiner rejected it," he says. "But you see I don’t like to give up, so I thought about how we could convince the examiner to approve the patent.
Yes, Kohyoongliat, the subject - verb order is the correct structure as you say. If it had been a direct question, the verb - subject order would have been acceptable.