EMBEDDED QUESTIONS

EMBADDED QUESTIONS

​An embedded question is a question that is included inside another question or statement. 

• Normal question: Where is the station?

• Indirect question (that includes an embedded question): Could you tell me where the station is?

• Normal question: Where does she work?

• Embedded question in a statement: I don't know where she works. (Here 'where she works' is the object.)

Multiple Choice

Please let me know (When is the concert?)

• Please let me know when the concert is.

• Please let me know when is the concert.

• Please let me know when the concert.

• Please let me know is when the concert.

Multiple Choice

They'd like to understand (Why was the meeting canceled?)

• They'd like to understand why the meeting was cancel.

• They'd like to understand why the meeting was canceled.

• They'd like to understand the meeting was canceled why.

• They'd like to understand why was the meeting canceled

Multiple Choice

We're not sure (What time is the party?)

• We're not sure is what time the party.

• We're not sure what is time the party.

• We're not sure what time the party is.

• We're not sure time the party is what.

Embedded information questions

I can't remember what the article's about.
I can't understand why you've decided not to read it.
We're not sure whose magazine this is.
No one knows when it was written.
Do you know where the author is from?
Can you tell me where he lives?
I don't know who wrote the book.
They don't know who she spoke to.
I wonder where the nearest pharmacy.

Multiple Select

When is the next bus?

• Can you tell me when the next bus is?

• I want to know when the next bus is?

• Do you know when the next bus is?

Multiple Select

Who made the hotel reservation?

• Do you know who made the hotel reservation?

• Can you tell me who made the hotel reservation?

• I want to know who made the hotel reservation?

Multiple Choice

How long is the audiobook?

• I'm not sure how long the audiobook is.

• I'm not sure how is long the audiobook.

• I'm not sure how long is the audiobook.