Embedded questions ❓🤔

 

Hello! 😊

Today we are going to review a little bit about embedded questions.

First of all, what are embedded questions?

❄ This kind of question is included within another question or usually in statements. Actually, native English speakers tend to use them more than direct questions.

❄ You may say, but what is the difference between a direct and embedded question?

Here is an example:  Direct question: What time did the plane arrive?

                              Embedded question: I wonder what time the plane arrived.

❄ Another important fact that you need to know about these type of questions is that they often start with the following phases: 

Could you tell me

Do you know 

Can you tell me

I wonder (commonly in statements)

Remember: if you start a question with one of the previous expressions (except the last one), the structure of the question changes.

Example:  Regular question: Where is the library?

                 Embedded question: Can you tell me where the library is?

As you can see, embedded questions are not always an exact question, but they can be used in a sentence or even inside regular questions.

Here you have a video for a deeper explanation about this topic:

Thanks for reading.

See you in the next post! 😉