INDIRECT QUESTIONS

-You can use Indirect Questions when you want to be more polite because this questions are considered more informal than the direct questions.

Example:

• Can I drink coffee in this place? Direct question
  
• Do you know if I can drink coffee in this place Indirect Question
• Where is the golden museum? Direct Question
  
• Can you tell me where is the golden museum Indirect Question

Atenttion!!!

- When you are going to make indirect questions with the verb to be you have to follow this steps:

• Indirect phrase + question word + subject + verb to be


• The indirect phrase can to be Do you know...

Can You tell me...

- When you are going to make indirect questions with other verbs you have to follow this steps:

Indirect phrase + question word + subject + verb

Example:

• Can you tell me what time the next transmilenio arrives?
• Can you tell me where the school Kennedy is?

http://www.eslbase.com/grammar/indirect-questions

http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d10h002_english_grammar_forming_indirect_questions.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.inqu.i.htm