Grammar – ‘I Wonder What They Are Doing’ or ‘I Wonder What Are They Doing’?

Tell me what I should be doing in that case if there is anything I should do.

As it stands the sentence is clumsy and grammatically incorrect.

We could just correct the grammar

Tell me what I should be doing in the case that there is anything that I should do.

That's at least close but it still sounds awkward and unnatural.

Before looking at alternatives it may be worth mentioning that learners often have problems distinguishing between should and can:

"Tell me what I should do" implies the presence of an obligation or duty. It may be formal as in a legal or contractual requirement or it may be moral as would be the case in a personal, family or other social expectation.

"Tell me what I can do", on the other hand, is more of an offer to do something.

Back to the main question...

What is actually being asked here?

The most likely circumstance is that the speaker suspects that there is something that they are required or expected to do but they are not sure what it is.

A typical real-life example would be a person in a new job who is uncertain of what is required of them.

There are quite a few natural sounding, grammatically correct alternatives. Examples include:

• Please tell me if there is anything I should be doing.

• If there's anything I should be doing, please tell me.

• Tell me, is there anything I should do?

• If you see a case where I should be doing something and I'm not, please tell me.

The second sentence is correct for what is almost certainly the intended meaning.

The natural assumption of intended meaning would be that there is an issue with Kate, and so is precedes wrong to express Kate's current state (that something is wrong).

The first sentence could potentially be correct, but that usage would be pretty unusual. The interpretation in this case would be that there is a wrong (as a noun, as in righting a wrong) which is accompanying Kate. Even if that were the intended meaning this construction would likely not be the first choice of a native speaker to express it.