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Luyện ngữ pháp - Destination B2 (Unit 21: Grammar - Reported speech / reported questions / reporting verbs)

Form - Reported questions

Reported questions

• We use reported questions when we want to say what someone else asked.
eg Tim asked Tom if he wanted to go shopping with him.

• We use the same rules regarding tense, pronoun and time and place word/phrase changes with reported questions as we do with reported speech

Direct speech	Reported speech	Example
have, do, be or modal (ie yes/no questions)	use if or whether	'Can you get me* an ice cream, Tom?'asked Tim. ➔ Tim asked Tom if/whether he could get him an ice cream.*
what, who, which, when, where, why and how	what, who, which, when, where, why and how	'Why did you buy these* shoes?’asked Tim. ➔ Tim asked me why I had bought those shoes.*

Watch out!
• In direct questions we use the question form and question marks (Can you ... ?) • In reported questions we don't use the question form or question marks (asked if he could ... ).