Fragen über die Beispielsätze mit, und die Definition und Benutzung von "Cuold"

A: "could".
"Could you tell me what time it is?"

"It's hot outside, I could drink a cold beer."

"How could you be so mean to him?"

A: We usually ask indirect questions to soften the question, often for politeness, for example “Do you know where the bathroom is?” (Rather than the harder, direct question “Where is the bathroom?”). We may also ask an indirect question when we are discussing someone who is not in the conversation, for example “Do you think he knows the way home?”

We can report questions to feedback, as in reported speech, for example “He told me where the bathroom was.” We may also use embedded questions to report that we have a question, but we are not directly asking it, for example “I wonder what time it is.”