Notice that in the indirect question I put the verb ('is') after the subject ('the bank'), in

the same way as I do with a normal positive sentence ('the bank is over there'), but in

the direct question I put the verb 'is' before the subject 'the bank'. This is called

inversion, and it is used to make direct questions in many verb tenses in English, but

we don't use inversion in indirect questions. This is very similar to the grammar of

reported questions. However, we use indirect questions in a different way from

reported questions. Indirect questions are a way of being polite. They are very, very

common in English, especially when you're talking to someone you don't know. 

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Notice that in the indirect question I put the verb ('is') after the subject ('the bank'), in

the same way as I do with a normal positive sentence ('the bank…