Reported question why

The only differences are that you need to use a different word to introduce the reported speech , and the word order of the question becomes like that of a statement. You end the sentence with a full stop, not a question mark.

To report a question, we use verbs such as: inquire , wonder , want to know , ask …. Only ask can take an indirect object. Reported speech: He wanted to know whether I had a computer. Reported speech: The teacher asked me if I had received his e-mail.

OR The teacher asked me whether I had received his e-mail. Reported speech: She asked me where he had stayed. Indirect speech: She asked when he would go back to London.

I asked him if he ate meat. M31 "Do you speak English? M41 "What are you doing? All this and more now in a handy paperback or ebook M11 "Where will I be in ? M31" Will he still be there in ? M41 "Who's she going to marry? Footnote: Absolute and relative adverbs of time or place. English like many other languages has a series of adverbs of time and place which are absolute concepts, and strictly related to present time the moment or place. Now, today, yesterday, tomorrow, in five minutes' time etc , here.

In indirect questions or statements , the moment is not normally the same as it was when the question or statement was originally made. Therefore it is often necessary to change the adverb of time and use one that expresses a relative concept of time. Here are the most common pairs:. Example: "Can you be here tomorrow?