Indirect questions

The objective is to understand how important it is for the project

Or

The objective is to understand how important is it for the project

should I invert the verb with the subject in an indirect question ?

Question

Indirect questions

The objective is to understand how important it is for the project

Or

The objective is to understand how important is it for the project

should I invert the verb with the subject in an indirect question ?

Answer

The first sentence is correct. "How important..." is a noun phrase, so it doesn't need to follow the word order for questions. The normal word order is fine.

Answer

In this case, go with the first choice. You don’t need to invert the verb for this type of question.

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