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going to be embedded questions embedded
questions an embedded question is like a
question inside another question or
inside a statement so i'm going to talk
about how you can use these and how to
make these uh to ask for help and to
explain problems so a good grammar
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embedded questions
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then
i'm going to begin today by explaining
first what is an embedded question part
two i'm going to talk about how to make
embedded questions uh embedded questions
have kind of special grammar they're a
little bit different from a basic
question so i'm going to explain how to
make them and then third i'm going to
talk about some common patterns that we
use with embedded questions so
let us begin
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uh first what is an embedded question uh
why do why should we care about this
i mentioned embedded embedded questions
are questions inside another question
the word embedded
means something put inside something
else so for example online you might see
like an embedded video in a blog post so
that means the video is inside a blog
post
an embedded question
therefore
an embedded question in grammar is a
question inside a statement or inside a
question
so we use embedded questions to make
ourselves sound a little bit softer or
when we want to kind of ask two
questions at the same time
this is what we use embedded questions
to do
okie dokie so
let's take a look at some examples
of statements and questions that use
this grammar and then i'm going to talk
about how we make these
so some examples these are embedded uh
questions the embedded question in each
of these
is underlined i've underlined the
question inside the statement or inside
the question so first uh first example
is do you know who stole my coffee so
this part who stole my coffee this is
like the basic thing like the original
question we have the thing we want to
know is who stole my coffee we put it
inside this other question
to ask that person if they know
something
so here you can kind of clearly i hope
see this question inside another one
but let's compare this then
to the next example this one's not a
question
but it's actually a statement so this
example is i can't remember
what my password is i can't remember
what my password is so here what my
password is this is the part that's like
the embedded question or the problem
that we need to solve and we state kind
of the bigger issue with this i can't
remember i can't remember so i'm going
to talk about why this part of the
sentence
looks like this like why isn't it what
is my password why i'm going to talk
about that in part two there's some
special grammar rules happening here and
here actually
third example sentence for this grammar
is i wonder when
my parents are going to arrive i wonder
when my parents are going to arrive
so again the underlined part here
is the embedded question so when my
parents are going to arrive again you'll
notice this is different from a basic
question when we want to ask this
question we would say when are my
parents going to arrive but again we
have some special grammar to consider
here i'll talk about this also in part
two
fourth example
uh can you tell me
where i submit this form can you tell me
where i submit this form so to submit
means like to turn something in can you
tell me where i submit this form uh
where i uh turn in this form so these
are all examples of embedded questions
so there's some question
inside the sentence or inside another
question this will be today's focus
grammar
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uh yeah some people are sending some
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something is
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going to talk
in part two about how we make these
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we're going to use them to express
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okay let's go to part two so part two
let's look at grammar rules hooray
everyone's favorite grammar uh grammar
rules how to make embedded questions
so i mentioned
this grammar has like uh there's kind of
special grammar when we uh
when we make these kinds of sentences
and we make these kinds of questions
so
i've broken it into kind of two steps so
if you think okay i want to try to make
this style question or i want to i want
to use this grammar what should you do
so step one what is the information that
you want so what is the problem you want
to solve some examples so this is like
your original question what do you need
to know or what are you looking for
so for example who stole my coffee like
i want to know who stole my coffee this
is my basic question maybe or
what is my password this is maybe that's
my problem like i'm thinking to myself
what is my password this is my original
question
or
when are my parents going to arrive
or
where do i submit this form so first
step is to think about your problem what
is the information you need to get what
is the information you're looking for
that's one
second then
second step is to look at the verb in
your question so remember the verb is
like the action or in these examples we
need to focus on a couple of uh helping
verbs do and be
so
is the verb in your question a form of
do
or be this is a really important point
for this grammar so let's take a look at
the first sentence for example in this
sentence who stole my copy my verb is
stol stol
so stol is the past tense form of steel
yeah so
i can answer no to this question is the
verb a form of do or be it's stole so no
it's not
if no there's no change to your question
you don't need to change this question
you can put it in your sentence or you
can put it in your
new question with no change so
you get oops sorry
so you get this sentence do you know who
stole my coffee so when i say no change
i mean this part of this sentence does
not change who stole my copy is the same
as the original sentence yeah that's
because this verb is not due and it's
not b
so that's that's easy enough right but
let's now talk about
the next couple actually
what is my password let's take a look at
this one so in this sentence what is my
password my verb is is
is
is is a form of be
right so
i need to
look at a different rule
my verb here is is
and it's a form of b
so yes
the verb being used is b if your verb
is a b verb a form of the verb to be
move that verb
after the subject so
what is my password
here's my verb my subject here is my
password my password so in this type of
grammar this is
moves to the end of the sentence what my
password is
so when i say this question the original
question it's just what is my password
that's a basic direct question
if however you want to make an embedded
question you have to move this verb
to the position after your subject
thus you create this sentence
i can't remember
what my password is so that means your
change is just to move this verb is
to the end or rather after your subject
and then
put it in your full sentence in this
case i can't remember what my password
is this is the correct sentence here so
again this is with the verb to be let's
look at another example that uses this
to be verb though this one
when
are my parents going to arrive when are
my parents going to arrive
in this sentence again are this is a
form of the verb to be i'm using are
because my subject is my parents my
parents
so here again i need to follow this
pattern i need to follow this rule my
verb used is a form of be so i need to
move the verb after
the subject in this case it's our my
subject is my parents my parents
so the final sentence
looks like this i wonder when my parents
are going to arrive so again my verb my
be verb here moves after
my subject
this is the rule for embedded questions
hello lazard welcome to our members
welcome welcome
okay uh finally let's look at the last
example here the last example has a
different rule so i said there are two
verbs we need to be careful of with this
grammar one is do one is b
so we talked about the b rule
let's look at the last example
where
do i submit this form where do i submit
this form
if
the verb is a form of do so we have this
helping verb do if you're using that
helping verb do you need to follow a
different rule in this case
if the verb is due
drop it so that one you don't have to
move it at all just drop the do in the
question and put it in the sentence so
where i submit this form can you tell me
where i submit this form so not can you
tell me where do i submit this form but
can you tell me where drop the do i
submit this form so here the change is
this
where i submit this form again if you
want to ask a basic question don't
change any of this don't change this if
you want to put this question inside
another statement or inside another
question these are the rules to follow
to do that
yeah so some people yeah asthma said i
didn't know what embedded questions were
yeah lots of people
uh i see lots of people uh
make mistakes with this rule the b rule
like uh i don't know what is my password
make sure you move your b verb to the
end of this uh to after the subject
after the subject
yes if you have questions please feel
free to ask of course at any time let's
try to keep them on topic please
uh
let's see i don't see any examples here
yet now but if you have some please feel
free to send them along so this is how
we make embedded questions again the
verb thinking about the verb is very
important if the verb is not do or be no
change if the verb is b move the verb
after the subject if you're using do
that helping verb just drop it
okay
uh
good good all right uh we'll take one
more break and then i'm going to talk a
lot about some patterns that you can use
i'm going to talk about these
on this side of the board so i hope that
you can send some examples using today's
grammar with this
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i see some examples are coming in nice
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nice one nice one
uh muhammad on facebook says can you
tell me what time it is nice yeah don't
forget your me can you tell me what time
it is
uh can i say i don't know who he is yes
that is correct i don't know who he is
is correct okay
uh
i don't see other ones uh okay i will
continue on to the last point then so i
want to finish this lesson today by
introducing some common expressions we
use at the beginning of embedded
questions
so you can't well it's we have like a
couple
kind of a group of words or a group of
expressions and phrases that we commonly
use at the beginning of these embedded
questions so let's take a look common
patterns to express
problems and ask for help so when you
want to explain a problem as we've done
here
when we want to ask for help you can
start
your sentence or your question with one
of these
so for example i don't know i don't know
like i don't know what my password is so
that's a very common way to express a
problem something we we're looking for i
don't know this thing
a
second i'm not sure i'm not sure so
again we can use that same thing i'm not
sure what my password is i'm not sure
when my parents are going to arrive and
so on
uh this is another common one do you
know do you know please note this one is
a question these first two i don't know
and i'm not sure are just statements
this is just a statement do you know is
a question
and we commonly use do you know with if
or whether i'm going to talk about this
in just a moment how to make sentences
with if and whether in this pattern
specifically but uh just to finish off
this group i wonder is another one this
is not a question but i wonder you're
just kind of thinking but you're
thinking out loud you can use i wonder
to describe that
and finally can you or could you so this
is a very common request pattern like i
used it here
can you tell me where i submit this form
so you're making a request for something
let's backtrack though let's go back to
this one do you know if or whether lots
of people ask about if uh and weather
patterns so
uh to use this this do you know if or do
you know weather pattern
your original question use this you can
use this pattern this do you know
if
your original question
begins with do for example for example
do we have to go to the meeting tomorrow
if this is your original question you're
thinking to yourself do we have to go to
the meeting tomorrow and you want to ask
someone else like you don't know do i
have to go you need to ask someone else
you can use this do you know
if
pattern or do you know whether i
personally would use if here
so for example this would be
do you know
if
we have to go to the meeting tomorrow
so to make this kind of pattern replace
the do the original do
with if or whether so here do you know
if so originally this was do we have to
in the embedded uh question it's do you
know if we have to so this is something
you can use again when your sentence
when your question begins with do or
does
so please keep this in your mind okay i
saw a bunch of questions or a bunch of
examples come in and i missed them
because i was explaining i'm very sorry
uh
let's see
facebook
the internet has a problem alicia i'm
getting reports that the internet has a
problem i don't know
why i can't do nothing i hope i hope
it's okay i hope you can see uh youtube
youtube is okay it seems that youtube is
okay i'm very sorry facebook i hope
instagram is okay
uh
some people are reporting problems on
facebook
youtube is okay if you're having trouble
you might shift over to youtube i saw a
bunch of uh example sentences
uh gertrude says i wonder how long the
coronavirus epidemic will be nice one
nice example nice example
do you know if we have to learn english
from alicia from alicia t cliff
um
other ones elvin says i wonder where my
cat is perfect perfect uh jory says do
you know if i can study every day okay
that's
grammatically okay grammatically okay
uh
romano can you run that back for me the
last part which part do you mean the if
part
the if part uh perhaps because that's
the last last thing again if you're if
you want to make a question an embedded
statement or an embedded question
and your original question starts with
do like do we have to go to the meeting
tomorrow and you want to ask if you want
to use this pattern do you know like
asking someone else for information
do you know
if
to use that pattern just drop do in your
original question that was it
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awesome
uh
other examples
facebook i don't see any other ones
people are saying hello on facebook
there okay uh
let's see
um i missed a bunch on on youtube
earlier but i don't know
sing to us no that would not be very
educational would it okay
uh
sorry oh yeah can you scroll back on on
youtube there was a bunch i missed i
missed a bunch on youtube earlier i saw
can you keep going please
scroll up squirrel let's go up on
youtube yeah right there there's a bunch
okay sorry i scrolled back we scrolled
back a little on youtube i missed a
bunch uh someone yeah i saw the cat one
earlier ah vidal yeah i saw yours
earlier you said can you please tell me
where the lufthansa counter is perfect
nice example nice example there okay and
then uh same one said uh who uh who
knows where i parked my car who knows
where i parked my car so we don't use
the progressive form so much with this i
guess there are some cases where you
might see like a progressive thing like
if your original question is like where
is he going you might say like do you
know where he is going i suppose
but it's not as common perhaps
okay uh
other points can do be used with do too
uh as in like a response like i do too
i'm not sure i understand the question
like i do too to mean i also do that
thing if that's what you mean yes
uh other examples uh
that's about it okay i don't see
anything else coming in right now so
i will
oh my gosh end on time this week what's
gotten into me okay
uh let's uh we'll wrap it up there for
today then so i hope that this was
helpful for you a little bit more uh
like intermediate level grammar for
today but yes these are called embedded
questions if you want to know more about
this grammar point so
i will wrap it up there
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i'm early today what's gotten into me
i'm always so early i have a couple i
have a couple extra minutes amazingly
today i'm not sure what happened
i'm always i always have way too much to
say
uh
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i don't see any example sentences either
so what can we do for a minute hmm
let's see
i can talk to youtube yeah give us some
minutes yeah
talk
let's see what can we discuss together
for a minute a youtube
let's see
i've talked about this point uh
so
talk about some problems oh we could
talk about problems oh the one problem
that i mentioned if you have one point
to take away from this lesson today it's
this be uh
this one right here the b uh pattern
when your uh embedded question uses the
verb to be this is a huge of well a very
very common problem that i see a lot of
people make is they forget to move this
verb this be verb after the subject so
this if there's one point you take away
from today's lesson i hope it's the rule
about moving your is or was or were when
you're making embedded questions yeah
all righty um
i guess then we will continue
next week
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