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Reported WH Questions

The document discusses how to summarize reported questions from direct speech to reported speech. It explains that when changing direct questions to reported questions, you change the verb tenses in the same way as reported statements but keep the question word. You also change the word order and drop "do/does/did" because it is no longer a direct question. Two examples are provided that show direct questions changed to reported questions by adjusting the verb tenses and reordering the words. The document ends with a review section that provides direct questions and asks the reader to rewrite them as reported questions in the format "She asked me...".

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Reported WH Questions

The document discusses how to summarize reported questions from direct speech to reported speech. It explains that when changing direct questions to reported questions, you change the verb tenses in the same way as reported statements but keep the question word. You also change the word order and drop "do/does/did" because it is no longer a direct question. Two examples are provided that show direct questions changed to reported questions by adjusting the verb tenses and reordering the words. The document ends with a review section that provides direct questions and asks the reader to rewrite them as reported questions in the format "She asked me...".

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Reported ‘wh’ questions

We've talked a lot about reporting sentences. But how about questions?

• Direct speech: Where do you work?

How can we make the reported speech here?

It's similar to reported statements. We change the tenses in the same way. We also keep the question

word. But we change the word order and drop 'do / does / did' because this isn't a real question any

more.

• Direct speech: Where do you work?

• Reported speech: She asked me where I worked.

Another example:

• Direct speech: Where is the post office?

• Reported speech: She asked me where the post office was.

After the question word, we use normal sentence word order. We'd normally say 'I worked' and we'd

normally say 'the post office was', so that's the word order we use here.
Let's review! Make reported questions. Start with 'she asked me ...'.

1. What do you study?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

2. Where do you live?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

3. How is Lucy?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

4. Why are you sad?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

5. When did you arrive?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

6. What do you want?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

7. Where are the keys?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

8. How was the film?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

9. Why is he late?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________

10. When will you leave?

She asked me ______________________________________________________________


Answers

1. She asked me what I studied.

2. She asked me where I lived.

3. She asked me how Lucy was.

4. She asked me why I was sad.

5. She asked me when I arrived. (or ... had arrived.)

6. She asked me what I wanted.

7. She asked me where the keys were.

8. She asked me how the film was. (or ... had been.)

9. She asked me why he was late.

10. She asked me when I would leave.

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