Tuesday, April 7, 2015

grammaticality - Use of "confess" when followed by interrogative clause (e.g. I confessed to my parents what I ate last night)

I am not a native speaker, but just wondering if you can use a non-why question as the embedding clause of confess.




a. I confessed to my wife why I started smoking again.





(Pretty sure this one with why-question is grammatical, right?)



What about:




b. I confessed to my parents what I ate last night.




(Suppose that my parents do not let me eat junk food, but last night I ate potato chips secretly and felt guilty about it.)





c. I want to confess to my parents what I ate last night.




(Same context as (b))



Thank you!

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