 this is Marc I'm doing great thanks for asking. Could you please tell me what time it is? Do you know where the closest bus stop is? Is it possible to know what the result of my test was? I wonder if you're paying attention to this lesson. In this lesson we're going to learn how to make indirect questions. So stay tuned. Yes that's right we're going to talk about making indirect questions. However I spoke about making questions. If you want to watch all those lessons you may click here. I will read you more or less how to make a normal question. What do we need first? We need the auxiliary. Yes the auxiliary is essential in a question. The auxiliary plus the subject. We have WH question words like who how where when that goes first. Then we have the the auxiliary like I said. Then the subject sometimes I will get to that in a minute. Then the verb. The verb could be the base of the verb past past participle and in the verb. And then we have the object maybe or a time expression at the ends of the sentence of the question sorry. So we have two types of questions. Object questions and subject questions. The object questions follow the following rule. So WH question word then we have the auxiliary then the subject and then the verb. Like in this example what are you doing? I'm asking for the object. I'm doing something so something is the object right? In the other example I ask for the subject so who taught you English? Here we need the subject we want to know who so somebody taught me English. So you can see that we have WH question word and then we have the verb in the past and then the object and then something else right? So is the subject question. This is a subject question. Who taught you English? So Mark for example taught me English. If you want to watch those lessons you as I said you can click there and you will get to that lesson. But in this lesson I want to concentrate on making indirect questions and when would we make indirect questions? When we want to be more polite to somebody or we want to keep a distance from someone right? So we make indirect questions in those cases and we have expressions that we use when making indirect questions and so we are going to get to all those expressions. The first expression that I introduced in my introductory example was with could. Could you tell me or can you help me or would it be possible? Notice how I used modal verbs. So could, can and would. Remember that obviously if you're making an indirect question the first part the first part of the question is the question. So can the auxiliary then follows the same rule right? The auxiliary can, then you which is the subject, then help which is the base of the verb, help and then the object. The rest is not a question. It's part of the question but it's not the question itself. Let me give you examples to show you what I said. Could you please tell me, could you please tell me? I added please here just to be polite. Could you please tell me what time it is? Notice that I don't say what time is it but what time it is. This is not the question. This is part of the question but it's not the question. The question is right here. Could you please tell me? That's why is an indirect question. So let's go to the second example with would it be possible? Would it be possible to take a look at your homework? Would it be possible to take a look at your homework? So here would it be possible is the question and the rest is part of the question. It's not a question. And the other example, would it be possible for me if you want to be very direct, I mean showing that it is you that you care, would it be possible for me to go out early from work today? So would it be possible for me is the question and the rest is not a question to go out early from work today. Now the second expression that I used and that we use actually is do you know or do you happen to know using the auxiliary do and then the subject you. Right? Do you happen to know, do you know? And the examples are do you know where the closest us stop is? Notice here again. Do not get confused with these. Some people say where is the closest bus stop is wrong because the question is do you know? Do you know where the closest bus stop is? Right? Let's look at a second example. Do you happen to know? Do you happen to know? So here do you happen to know is the question and then if the train arrives on time? Notice something? Yes. We have conjugated the verb to arrive right here. Is third person the train? It arrives on time. Yes, it is right because the question is this part. It's not this. It's the first part. Do you happen to know if the train arrives on time? Yes, many people make mistakes with this. So I'm going to erase this and we're going to go over two other cases where we use making indirect questions. Yes, so making indirect questions. The third point, expressions with the verb to be like is it possible or is there any chance? So let's look at the examples. Is it possible to know what the result of my test was? Again, the question here is is it possible? And then we have to know the verb what the result of my test and here is the subject was a verb or auxiliary. So to know what the result of my test was not what was the result of my test. No, the question is here. Is it possible? So let's look at the other example. Is there any chance? Is there any chance for me, if you want to, to use your cell phone or to use your phone? Is there any chance for me to use your cell phone or your phone? Now, if you don't want to use any of these expressions, you can always use I wonder if or I'd like to know or I was wondering if these are not questions but they are statements made to indicate a question. Let's look at my example. I wonder if you're paying attention to this lesson. So I wonder if you're paying attention to this lesson. So this is an indirect question but if I wanted to make a direct question, I would say are you paying attention to my lesson or to this lesson? Are you paying attention to this lesson? If I want to be indirect, I wonder if you're paying attention to this lesson. The other example and the last example for today is I'd like to know, I'd like to know how much this house costs. Look at here, we have the verb to cost third person this house costs. So as you can see, there are no questions, there are indirect questions. I'd like to know how much this house costs or I'd like to know if you're coming over tomorrow. I'd like to know if you're coming over tomorrow. If I want to be direct, I would say are you coming over tomorrow? Are you coming over tomorrow? Okay, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed the lesson. If you have any comments, any requests, you may type them under this video. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, I suggest you do. If you want to share the lesson, you may do so. Have a great day and see you next week with a new grammar lesson. Take care, bye-bye.