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Stage 25 Direct and indirect questionsIn each sentence:

• underline the clause which makes up the indirect question,• circle the correct verb,• translate the entire sentence, • write in the bubbles in English what the direct questions would have been.

Direct questions Indirect questions

1   neque centuriō neque mīles sciēbat ubi Britannī (manērent, mānserant).

2   hospitēs rēgī Cogidubnō dīcere nōn poterant quō modō saltātrīx (apparēbat, appāruisset).

3   architectus scīre voluit cūr faber statuam deae (sculpēbat, sculperet).

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4   centuriō et mīles intellēxērunt quid captīvī (fēcissent, fēcerant).

5   mīles iuvenem rogāvit cūr post horreum (stāret/stābat).

6   mīles iuvenem comprehendit et iterum rogāvit cūr castra Rōmāna  (intrāvit/intrāvisset).

Direct Questions Indirect Questions

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7   centuriō mīlitem rogāvit ubi iuvenem (invēnerat/invēnisset).

8   centuriō, cum nōn cognōscere posset quō modō iuvenis in castra (irrūpisset/irrumpēbat), mīlitem iussit iuvenem ad carcerem dūcere et eum torquēre.

9 Modestus portam apertam cōnspicātus, in animō volvēbat quō hostis (abiit/abiisset).

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