1. Indirect Questions Stage 25

2. Direct Questions • You have met many sentences like this: • Ubi clamorem audivit? • Who heard the shout? • Ubi est captivus? • Where is the prisoner? • These are called DIRECT QUESTIONS.

3. Indirect Questions • In Stage 25, you have now met sentences like this: • centurio nesciebat quis clamorem audivisset. • The centurion did not know who had heard the shout. • equites cognoverunt ubi rex habitaret. • The horsemen found out where the king was living. • These are called INDIRECT QUESTIONS because the question is referred to but not asked directly.

4. Formation • An indirect question is formed in the following way: head verb + question + subjunctive word verb

5. Head Verbs • Head Verbs are actions that happen inside your head i.e. verbs of speaking, perceiving, hearing, knowing, and feeling. • Some examples of head verbs that we’ve seen:

6. Question Words • Question words are words that ask a question and can be used in direct and indirect questions. • Some examples of question words are: • cur: why? • quis: who? • quid: what? • quo modo: How? • ubi – Where? or When? • quo: by whom?, by which?, where?, etc. • cui – to whom, to which

7. Some ExamplesAre these direct or indirect questions?How are they translated?If it is an indirect question, what tense is the verb? • quis puerum interfecit? • nemo sciebat quis puerum interfecisset. • ubi pecuniam invenerunt? • iudex me rogavit ubi pecuniam invenissent. • Salvius nesciebat cur Quintus regem adiuvaret. • Cogidubnus cognovit quo modo Cephalus venenum comparavisset. • Quintus scire voluit quid in templo esset. • Salvius tandem intellexit quo Quintus et dumnorix fugerent.