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Conversation Lesson 15
 
Lesson 15 - Asking Directions

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Asking Directions

Marilyn: Excuse Me. Could you tell me which way Dobson’s bookstore is?

Nancy: Yes, it’s that way. You go two blocks, then turn left. It’s on the corner opposite the post office.

Marilyn: Thanks I’ve only been in town a few days, so I really don’t know my way around yet.

Nancy: Oh, I know how you feel. We moved here a year ago, and I still don’t know where everything is.
Conversation Notes
  • Could you tell me
  • An alternative (and slightly softer) version of Can you tell me…?
  • which way Dobson’s bookstore is
  • Note that in the “indirect question” the subject precedes the verb—the reverse of the word order in the direct question (Which way is Dobson’s bookstore?).
  • post office
  • A compound noun, with the principal stress on the first word.
  • I really don’t know my way around yet
  • Meaning is I don’t know how to find things or I don’t know how to go to various places.
  • I know how you feel
  •  Note how the “indirect question” (how you feel) differs from the direct question (How do you feel?): it has the word order of a statement rather than of a question—the subject wholly precedes the verb, and the interrogative do is omitted.
  • I still don’t know where everything is
  • Again, an “indirect question” (where everything is) has the word order of a statement, with subject preceding the verb, rather than of the corresponding direct question (Where is everything?).
Source: U.S. State Department
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