Reported questions
• With reported questions, we make the same changes regarding tense, pronoun and time and place word/phrases as we do with reported speech.
• In reported questions we don't use the question form or question marks.
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| Direct speech |
Reported speech |
Questions beginning with the verbs have, do, be and modals
'Do you want to play Monopoly?' asked Cheryl. |
Cheryl asked if/whether we wanted to play Monopoly. |
Questions with what, who, which, when, where, why and how
'What time did the match start?' asked Jimmy. |
Jimmy asked Andrea what time the match had started. |
