Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this video, I'm going to talk about how to make embedded questions in English.

Let's get started. First, let's take a look at what an embedded question even is. What is an embedded question?

An embedded question is a question inside another question or inside a sentence. Embedded questions are used to make questions

softer or more polite. So in this lesson, I'm going to compare embedded questions,

questions that are inside something else, with direct questions. So we can see how we need to change the questions in order to make

this inside type of question. So let's start by making these two sets. So the first one is this

direct question set. So here are some samples of just very, very basic direct questions.

What time does the bus leave?

What time does the bus leave?

Very basic question, information question, right?

Or, who ate my sandwich? Who ate my sandwich?

Again, very simple basic question.

One more, what is the password?

What is the password? These are simple, basic, direct

questions. Then let's compare this to embedded questions. So let's change these direct questions and

put them inside another question or another statement. And let's take a look at what happens to the questions

when we do this. So the first direct question was, what time does the bus leave? In an embedded

question, for example, we could say, can you tell me what time the bus leaves? Can you tell me what

time the bus leaves? So you can see this question, what time the bus leaves? Can you tell me what time the bus leaves? So you can see this

question, what time the bus leaves is different from the direct question. What time does

the bus leave? We have different word order and different words used here. We're going to

talk about why this is in the middle of today's lesson.

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