Reported Questions Grammar:a. We use introductory verbs like ask, wonder, want to know, inquire...b. We change the interrogative word-order to statement word-order.c. All the other changes in indirect speech still apply.Examples: Feng: How old is your cousin?
Click here to practise reported 'yes / no' questions. Reported Requests There's more! What if someone asks you to do something (in a polite way)? For example: Direct speech: Close the window, please Or: Could you close the window please?
Reported Speech 当你要把人地既说话复述出唻既时候 你就需要用到reported speech. 中文例子: 小明: “今日我无返学.” 之后你复述时会讲: 小明话今日佢无返学. Reported speech 内 引号无左 而我会变成佢. 当句子由direct 改成reported speech 时 需要作以下既改变. Present tense ...
It is also important that you use an indirect question in reported speech, i.e. after the interrogative or‚whether‘/‚if‘you continue the sentence as if it were a statement (subject-verb etc.). The auxiliary verb‚do‘is not used in indirect questions. ...
Change questions from their inverted question structure back to standard sentence structure in the reported speech. 5. 'I get up every morning at seven o'clock.', Peter said. Peter said he got up every morning at seven o'clock. Peter said I got up every morning at seven o'clock. ...
Reported speech: She said that the sun rises/rose from the East. Reported speech- Handling questions: What happens when the sentence we are trying to report was actually a question? That’s something we are going to deal with in this section. Reported questions- It’s quite interesting. let...
How are questions handled in reported speech? When reporting questions, the sentence structure changes from a question format to a statement format. The tense often changes similarly to statements. For example, “Are you coming?” changes to “He asked if I was coming.”...
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Direct speech: Jane: “I don’t like living here.”(Jane is referring to herself) Reported speech: Jane said (that) she didn’t like living here.(The pronounsherefers toJane) Other words about place and time may also need to be changed. ...
Reported speech worksheet Report the following questions. 1. She asked, ‘Will you help me?’ 2. The stranger asked, ‘Do you know where Krishna lives?’ 3. She asked, ‘May I know the truth?’ 4. She asked, ‘Have you met my cousin Jay?’ 5. The teacher asked the boy, ‘Have...