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== Indirect questions ==
As well as direct questions (such as ''Where are my keys?''), there also exist [[indirect question]]s (also called ''interrogative content clauses''), such as ''where my keys are''. These are used as [[subordinate clause]]s in sentences such as "I wonder where my keys are" and "Ask him where my keys are." Indirect questions do not necessarily follow the same rules of grammar as direct questions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elc.edu/english-grammar-lessons-indirect-questions/|title=Indirect Questions - English Grammar Lesson - ELC|date=2017-11-27|work=ELC - English Language Center|access-date=2018-01-24|language=en-US}}</ref> 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 [[grammatical tense|tense]] and other changes that apply generally to [[indirect speech]].