Hi Amy, 1) "Would you tell me where is the restaurant" Would you tell me, where is the restaurant? With the correct punctuation, this is a more formal and polite request. This is more like an inquiry. 2) "Would you tell me where the restaurant is?" This is more like a request for information that someone is keeping from you. A more natural way to ask is: Can you please tell me where the restaurant is? Where is the restaurant?

Only the second version is correct English. The question in the main clause uses inversion “Would you tell me X? X is an “embedded question” in the form of a subordinate clause. We don’t use inversion in such embedded questions. Note that the question mark is there because the main clause is a question. The main clause could also be a statement or a command, in which case, we wouldn't use a question mark. Statement: I wonder where the restaurant is. Command: Tell me where the restaurant is!

I think is safe to ask "where is the restaurant?" or, in a polite way, "would you tell me where the restaurant is?". The first question is the basic "question-Formation rule". The second one, you have the verb at the end of the sentence, because you moved the rest of it to the front of the sentence by the "question-formation rule" with the "would you tell me". Plus, the first question express the idea "the location of the restaurant". The second one, express the idea of "would you tell me".

The first is for asking question, the verb comes before the subject: Where is the restaurant? (This is a direct question) e.g.: "Where is the restaurant?" he asked. I answered: It is over there. The second one is a phrase not a question. e.g. He asked me where the restaurant is and I told him it is over there. Note that here "where" is a connector of place, not a question word.

When you'd like to ask a question you must put am/is/are after the question pattern (where, when...). When you'd like to make an affirmative or negative sentence you must put am/is/are after pronoun.