I am taking classes of English Grammar. My educator and I are studying Indirect questions currently. I learnt that Indirect questions are direct questions embedded in various sentences, and they follow the same structure as declarative sentences do. I could make sense of most of this, as I thought in the class , but when I came home and started to solve the hand out, There was this problem that I could not make any sense of. The problem was: Which is correct?
"Who you said, was coming to see me this morning?"
Or
"Who did you say, was coming to see me this morning?"
When I asked this to my educator, the next day, he said that the first one is correct, and supplemented it with some weird logic, and at last said, "English is illogical sometimes , and that's what it is, we can't do anything." Just mug this structure up. But I want to know how does it relate with grammar, and at least the grammatical term for it, so that, I can study it from a grammar book.
