B1 Reported Questions

Where do you live?

• He asked where did I live.

• He asked where I lived.

• He asked where was I living.

• He asked where I have lived.

What time does the train leave?

• She wanted to know what time does the train leave.

• She wanted to know what time the train left.

• She wanted to know what time did the train leave.

• She wanted to know what time would the train leave.

Why are they laughing?

• John asked why they were laughing.

• John asked why were they laughing.

• John asked why did they laugh.

• John asked why they had laughed.

Have you finished your homework?

• The teacher asked us if we had finished our homework.

• The teacher asked us if we have finished our homework.

• The teacher asked us whether we finished our homework.

• The teacher asked us whether had we finished our homework.

Where is Maria?

• He asked where Maria was.

• He asked where was Maria.

• He asked where had Maria been.

• He asked where Maria is.

Can you help me?

• She asked politely could I help her.

• She asked politely whether I can help her.

• She asked politely if I could help her.

• She asked politely whether I could helping her.

What are you doing tomorrow?

• He wanted to know what I was doing the next day.

• He wanted to know what I would do tomorrow.

• He wanted to know what I did the next day.

• He wanted to know what I would be doing the next day.

Where have you been all morning?

• She asked where I had been all morning.

• She asked where did I been all morning.

• She asked where I have been all morning.

• She asked where I had been all mornings.

Who wrote this report?

• The manager asked who had written that report.

• The manager asked who wrote that report.

• The manager asked who had wrote the report.

• The manager asked who was writing that report.

Why didn’t you call me?

• She wondered why didn’t I call her.

• She wondered why I didn’t call her.

• She wondered why I hadn’t called her.

• She wondered why had I not called her.