On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Nancy Burkhalter wrote: > I too agree with you when you reverse the word order. But what baout when the > word order is not reversed, as in > > I asked what we should do now. > > To me that's not a "true" question but an embedded one. > Right, I share your intuition. 'what we should do now' is an embedded clause acting as object of 'ask'. No ? called for there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~