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What is the difference between/which is right: "What I am doing wrong" vs "What am I doing wrong" ?

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  • There's not enough context in your quotes. Are those sentences questions, or statements? It's the word-order which determines which is which, so it's not possible to say which one is right.
    – Andrew Leach
    Feb 25, 2015 at 21:39

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What I am doing wrong is not a direct question, it is a statement or an indirect question like:

Feel free to correct what I am doing wrong.

I want to find out what I am doing wrong.

Whereas What am I doing wrong? is a direct question.

In direct questions the auxiliary verb am should become before the subject I.

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