curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-about-adverbial-phrases/67fe5379d26421f3749d97a5.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What does Bob want Sarah to tell him?
What the team's progress on the project is.
Bob doesn't ask Sarah about the team's progress.
Why the team is focusing on back-end development.
Bob doesn't ask about the reason for focusing on back-end development.
How often the team currently discusses back-end development.
When the team started discussing back-end development.
Bob is not asking about when the team started discussing the topic.
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Bob asks Sarah to provide information about the frequency of the team's discussions.
Notice that the question How often does the team currently discuss back-end development? changes its word order when it becomes the object of another question. Subject and verb are reversed from the original interrogative format.
In other words, when you use a question as the object of another question, you change the word order to an affirmative form. For example:
How often does he travel for work? becomes Can you tell me how often he travels for work? - The question now is Can you tell me...?
What time does the meeting start? becomes Do you know what time the meeting starts? - The question now is Do you know...?
In both cases, the auxiliary verb does is dropped and the subject and verb are inverted into an affirmative statement format when used as the object of another question.
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