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.
 
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