[Grammar] I just want to ask you if you could tell

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Nikitus

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Hello

Is the following question grammatically correct?

"I just want to ask you if you could tell me what time is it?"

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I just want to ask you if you could tell me what time is it?

Getting the word order right in this kind of sentence can be tricky. It feels like a question, but it's really an affirmative statement. You can see this by considering various permutations:

I want to ask you if you could help me.
I want to ask you if could tell me the time.
Could you tell me what time it is?
I want to ask you if could tell me what time it is.

The subject and main verb are inverted only is the sentence that's written as a question.
 
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