REPORTING
QUESTIONS
·
To
change questions from Direct Speech
into Reported Speech, we change
tenses, pronouns, and other words just as in reported statements.
·
Reported questions begin with the reporting
verbs ask, wonder and want to know.
‘Where are you going?’ asked Martha
Martha wanted to know where I was going.
·
Reported questions follow the word order of
affirmative sentences (subject +
verb + object)
There is a full stop, not a question mark at the end of a reported question.
‘Do you play
golf?’ he asked
He
asked me if I played golf.
·
WH- QUESTIONS
When
the direct question begins with a question word (who, what, which, whose, where, when, why, how), the reported
question also begins with the question word.
‘When are they coming back?’ she asked
She wondered when they were coming back.
YES / NO QUESTIONS
When
the direct question does not begin
with a question word, but with an auxiliary verb (do/does, did, have/has, etc.), the reported question begins with if or whether after the reporting
verb.
‘Have you seen John?’ asked Mary
Mary asked me if / whether I has seen John.
REPORTING COMMANDS AND REQUESTS
·
To
change commands from Direct Speech
into Reported Speech, we use tell, order, etc. as reporting verbs.
The imperative becomes a full infinitive.
‘Put that down!’ he said.
He told me to put that
down.
·
To
change requests from Direct Speech
into Reported Speech, we used ask, beg, etc. as reporting verbs. The Imperative becomes a full infinitive.
‘Please open a window,’ she said to me.
She asked me to open a window.
‘Don’t drive so fast,’ she said to him.
She asked him not to drive so
fast.
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