reported 2

Reported Speech 2

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https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-grammar/reported-speech

If the reporting verb is in the present - don't change tenses

" I want to go with you ."

She says she wants to go with us.

Yes/no questions

• if or whether to report the question

• Change the question into a statement by changing word order or omitting helping verbs : do/does/did

• Change tense

• Change pronouns

• Change time/place adverbs

'Are you going to the Helsinki conference?'

• He asked me if

• You are going to the Helsinki conference.

• He asked me if I was going to the Helsinki conference.

Did you sell your house last year?

• statement: omit: did tense : past simple - past perfect

• You had sold your house last year.

• introducing clause: He asked me if

• change pronouns/ time adverb

• He asked me if I had sold my house the previous year

Questions with a question word

• 'What time does the train leave?'

• Use the question word instead of if

  He asked me what

• omit: does tense present - past

  the train left.

• He asked me what time the train left

Offers, requests and suggestions

• If the question is making an offer, request or suggestion

• offer / ask + infinitive

• 'Would you like me to help you?'

• He offered to help me.

• 'Can you hold this for me, please?'

• She asked me to hold it.

Offers, requests and suggestions

• If the question is making an offer, request or suggestion

• suggest + ing.

• 'Why don't we check with Joel?'

• She suggested checking with Joel.

Multiple Choice

"Where will you stay?"

I asked her …

• if she would stay.

• where would she stay.

• where she would stay.

Multiple Choice

'Have you eaten ALL the cake?'

She asked me …

• if had I eaten all the cake.

• when I had eaten all the cake.

• if I had eaten all the cake.

Multiple Choice

'How often do you use public transport?'

She wanted to know …

• how often I used public transport.

• how I used often public transport.

• how often did I use public transport.

Multiple Choice

'Did you see the parade?' She asked us …

• where we had seen the parade.

• whether we had seen the parade.

• if did we see the parade.

Multiple Choice

'When had you last spoken?'

I asked her ...

• when have they last spoken

• when they had last spoken.

• whether they had last spoken.

Multiple Choice

'What were you doing at the time?'

She asked me …

• what had I been doing at the time

• what was I doing at the time.

• what I had been doing at the time.

Multiple Choice

'Can she walk yet?' I wondered …

• if she could walk yet.

• if can she walk yet.

• could she walk yet.

Multiple Choice

'What about having the party outside?'

She suggested …

• to have the party outside.

• having the party outside.

• about having the party outside.