To suss out learnability, interviewers can ask indirect questions that point to curiosity, like if potential employees take a different route to work everyday.
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Some examples of these questions Rubins recommends include: "These kinds of indirect questions can be helpful because while self-knowledge is so important, it's a relentless thing that we have to be doing all the time," Rubin says.
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The following two subsections consider wh-movement in indirect questions and relative clauses.
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Accessed 7 October 2014. In Greek, the question mark is used even for indirect questions.
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For example, in English and some other languages, indirect questions are formed without inversion of subject and verb (compare the word order in "where are they?" and "(I wonder) where they are"). Indirect questions may also be subject to the changes of tense and other changes that apply generally to indirect speech.
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In English, wh- movement occurs to form a question in both main and subordinate clauses. When the question is expressed with a main clause, it is a direct question. When the question is expressed with a subordinate clause, however, it is an indirect question. While wh-fronting occurs in both direct and indirect questions, there is a key word order difference that distinguishes between the two.Concerning the key word order difference across direct and indirect questions, see for instance Roberts (1997:37) and Groß and Osborne (2009:74ff.), and Carnie (2013:367).
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Wh-questions are formed with a wh-word, which usually immediately precedes the predicate (verbal or non-verbal. Indirect questions are introduced by either (a)su 'if, whether' or a wh- expression, depending on the kind of question.
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Because the correlatives that begin with ki- are also used to form relative clauses (similarly to many European languages) there is in theory a potential for ambiguity between indirect questions and relative clauses. In practice, however, confusion is very rare.
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Indirect questions which are dependent on a verb of asking in the classical period always use a subjunctive verb.Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), p. 296. The indicative is found in early Latin and sometimes in poetry; cf. Allen & Greenough (1903), p. 372.
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Psychiatrist (also known as Psycho) is a party game in which all but one player takes the role of a patient with the same problem, and the remaining player is a psychiatrist who must diagnose them with a series of indirect questions.
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Exceptions include the conjunction (, "or"), the interrogative adverbs (, "how") and (, "where") in both direct and indirect questions and some fixed expressions such as (, "occasionally") and (, "cravingly"). Moreover, weak personal pronouns are accented in cases where they may be mistaken for enclitics (see below). For example, (, "the dog barked at me") instead of (, "my dog barked").Καρανικόλας, Α. κά.
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The question mark' ' (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. The question mark is not used for indirect questions. The question mark glyph is also often used in place of missing or unknown data. In Unicode, it is encoded at .
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Prithee was almost always used as a parenthesis in order to introduce indirect questions and requests. Prithee and pray you often coincide in Early Modern English texts, and the difference between the two terms has been debated by scholars. Scholars such as Roger Brown and Albert Gilman have suggested that prithee was an ingroup indicator. Other scholars suggest that it is simply the more deferential form.
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This variation requires that indirect questions include all the criteria thus far established. So if it has been determined that the mystery person is a living male movie star, the next question must be about a living male movie star, and so on. This adds a new degree of difficulty, while more directly channeling the game closer to the correct answer. Another variation on this variation is to start not with a letter, but from scratch.
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Indirect questions expecting an answer yes or no can be introduced by or ('whether', 'if'): : (Nepos)Nepos, Hann. 2.4. :'he asked me whether I wanted to go with him to the camp' : (Suetonius)Suetonius, Ves. 23.3. :'he held the money under Titus's nose and asked if he was offended by the smell' After , the particle is used, and it is also sometimes used after other verbs (but not in Caesar or Cicero).Woodcock (1959), p. 137.
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The psychiatrist then returns, and attempts to diagnose the collective illness by asking indirect questions to each patient in turn ("Do you prefer the daytime or the nighttime?" rather than "Is your illness related to light?"). Patients can convey hints in their behavior as much as their answers. If a patient gives an answer which is inconsistent with the agreed affliction, or is a lie, the other patients should shout "Psychiatrist!", and the answering patient swaps seats with the patient who shouted first.
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References to questions in indirect speech frequently take the form of interrogative content clauses, also called indirect questions (such as whether he was coming). In indirect speech certain grammatical categories are changed relative to the words of the original sentence. For example, person may change as a result of a change of speaker or listener (as I changes to he in the example above). In some languages, including English, the tense of verbs is often changed – this is often called sequence of tenses.
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In Latin, the sequence of tenses rule affects dependent verbs in the subjunctive mood, mainly in indirect questions, indirect commands, and purpose clauses.Woodcock, E. C. (1959) A New Latin Syntax, pp. 101–3, 135–6, 223–4. If the main verb is in one of the non-past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the present or perfect subjunctive (primary sequence); if the main verb is in one of the past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive (historic sequence).
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Starting with his 1947 essay Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler,Adorno, TW (1947) Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler in Kenyan Review Vol.ix (1) Adorno produced a series of influential works to describe psychological fascist traits. One of these works was The Authoritarian Personality (1950),Adorno, Politics and Economics in the Interview Material, ch.17 published as a contribution to the Studies in Prejudice performed by multiple research institutes in the US, and consisting of a 'qualitative interpretations' that uncovered the authoritarian character of test persons through indirect questions.
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Braunlich was born to parents of German extraction, Emilie Hedwig Hoering Braunlich and the physician Henry Uchtorf Braunlich, in Davenport, Iowa on February 1, 1888. Her father's income made it possible for Alice to study at the University of Chicago, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1908 and a master's degree in 1909. From 1912 to 1914 she worked as an assistant for William Gardner Hale, professor of Latin. In 1913 she received her Ph.D., with a dissertation on indirect questions in the indicative mood.
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Giles learns that Wood is the son of Nikki, now dead, and that Spike killed her. The two plan for Giles to distract Buffy while Wood takes care of Spike. Giles takes Buffy on patrol and begins asking her indirect questions and making obscure references to her role against the First. In the meantime, Wood takes Spike to his hideout with the promise to protect him, but upon arrival Wood reveals to Spike that he knows Spike murdered his mother and that he's going to kill the monster inside him.
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The subjunctive has numerous uses, ranging from what potentially might be true to what the speaker wishes or commands should happen. It is often translated with 'should', 'could', 'would', 'may' and so on, but in certain contexts, for example indirect questions or after the conjunction ' 'when' or 'since', it is translated as if it were an ordinary indicative verb. Often in English the subjunctive can be translated by an infinitive; for example, ' (literally, 'he ordered _that he should go_ ') becomes in more idiomatic English 'he ordered him _to go_ '.
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An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws). They may be used in both direct questions (Where is he going?) and in indirect questions (I wonder where he is going). In English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses (The country where he was born) and certain adverb clauses (I go where he goes).
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In some cases the use of tenses can be understood in terms of transformations of one tense or mood into another, especially in indirect speech. For example, in indirect questions, a present indicative of direct speech, such as 'is', is changed first from indicative to subjunctive mood (), and then, if the context is past, from the present to the imperfect tense (). Another very common transformation is for the main verb in an indirect statement to be changed into the closest tense of the infinitive, so that the present tense changes to the present infinitive , and the imperfect 'he was' and perfect 'he was' both change to the perfect infinitive .
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However, the optative mood is not used after every past tense verb that introduces indirect statements. For example, after some verbs such as () "he said" an infinitive is used for reported speech; after verbs of perceiving, such as () "he noticed", a participle is often used. In the New Testament the optative mood in indirect speech is found only in Luke and Acts (apart from one example in John 13:24, where the text is disputed), and it seems often to be used in indirect questions where there is an element of potentiality,Boyer, J.L. (1988) "The classification of optatives: a statistical study" p. 134. for example: : Luke, 8:9 : .
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A particular type of interrogative word is the interrogative particle, which serves to convert a statement into a yes–no question, without having any other meaning. Examples include est-ce que in French, ли li in Russian, czy in Polish, ĉu in Esperanto, কি ki in Bengali, / ma in Mandarin Chinese, '/' in Turkish, pa in Ladin, ka in Japanese, ko/köFinnish has vowel harmony, see more here in Finnish and (да) ли (da) li in Serbo-Croatian. (The English word whether has a similar function but only in indirect questions; and Multicultural London English may use "innit", even in the absence of the pronoun "it".) Such particles contrast with other interrogative words, which form what are called wh-questions rather than yes–no questions. For more information about the grammatical rules for forming questions in various languages, see Interrogative.
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