Question

Wouldn’t they have saved her if she

hadn’t been good?
identify the type​

Answer 1

Answer:

I asked her how she would go if it rained. (Or:… started to rain. rained itself will mean ‘begin to rain’, so you may just use ‘rained’.)

In an indirect interrogative sentence (like the one you’ve quoted), the wh-question word (how/whether included) is always followed by the subject of the clause, here “she’.

To give you more examples -

I asked her how she did that.

I asked her what she would do.

I asked him when he would like to travel.

I wanted to know why they had behaved like that.

I desired to see where the rabbit would go.

They asked the teacher whether such a thing was possible.

He wanted to see which of the dogs/bags Ganesh would choose.

Farid asked me why the boss didn’t want to meet John.

We note the following points about each of the sentences:

A past tense is followed by a verb in the past tense (which may be a past perfect too, as in example 4). [This is called the “Sequence of tenses rule” - may sound illogical, because in some of the cases, the action hasn’t yet happened, or we don’t know if it will occur. However, English follows this rule, and that is the correct way in English.)

Each of the constructions has two clauses: a main clause and a subordinate (wh-) clause.

We also note that in such sentences, there are atleast two actors - one ‘asker’, and one addressee. In (7) , there are three ‘actors’, and in (8) there are four (Farid, me (the addressee), the boss, and John ). Sentence (7) has ‘he’, ‘dogs/bags’ and Ganesh as ‘actors’ ( 7 implies that there are only two options and “Ganesh” is most probably going to choose one.)