1. When do you expect to return? Next week.
    When did you say′? Next week.
  2. Where did you say William had gone′? To New York.

NOTE II.—Answers to questions, whether direct or indirect, when expressive of indifference, take the rising inflection, or the circumflex.

EXAMPLES.

  1. Did you admire his discourse? Not much′.
  2. Which way shall we walk? I am not particular′.
  3. Can Henry go with us? If he chooses′.
  4. What color do you prefer? I have no particular choice′.

NOTE III.—In some instances, direct questions become indirect by a change of the inflection from the rising to the falling.

EXAMPLES.

  1. Will you come to-morrow′ or next day′? Yes.
  2. Will you come to-morrow,′ or next day`? I will come to-morrow.

REMARK.—The first question asks if the person addressed will come within the two days, and may be answered by yes or no; but the second asks on which of the two days he will come, and it can not be thus answered.

RULE III.

When questions are connected by the conjunction or, the first requires the rising, and the second, the falling inflection.