[Grammar] What is your name?/Who is your dad?

[jutfrank]

a. She asked where I was going.
b. I know what your name is.

(a) is the indirect question

No, it's not. In fact, it's not a question at all.

(It's a report of a question.)

 

[kadioguy]

b. I know what your name is.

It's a declarative sentence with a main clause and a free relative clause.

In Taiwan, English teachers would tell us that 'what your name is' is a noun clause and that it is the object of the verb 'know'.

 

[kadioguy]

a. She asked where I was going.
(a) is the indirect question

No, it's not. In fact, it's not a question at all.

(It's a report of a question.)

Pardon me, but Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says it is an indirect question.

 

[Matthew Wai]

a. She asked where I was going.
[...]

(a) is the indirect question,

(a) is indirect speech according to Cambridge Dictionary.
I don't think (a) is a question because it doesn't require an answer.

In Taiwan, English teachers would tell us that 'what your name is' is a noun clause and that it is the object of the verb 'know'.

That can be confirmed by http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/noun_clauses.htm

 

[jutfrank]

Pardon me, but Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says it is an indirect question.

It's not a question. It's a report (using indirect word order) of a question.

 

[kadioguy]

That can be confirmed by http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/noun_clauses.htm

This website agrees that 'what your name is' is a noun clause and that it is the object of the verb 'know'. :-D