5 Study the examples. Does the tense of the verb change in indirect questions? Is it more polite to ask a direct or an indirect question? Direct questions 'Where is the church?' Reported questions She asked where the church was. Indirect questions I'd like to know where the church is. More practice Workbook page 33

The tense changes in reported questions: Where is the church? becomes She asked where the church was.

In indirect questions, the tense usually does not change: I’d like to know where the church is.

Indirect questions are more polite than direct questions. Notice that indirect questions have normal word order: where the church is, not where is the church.

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