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    1) To summarize questions and orders reported in indirect speech, the references to people, places, and times are changed, and verbs are put into the appropriate past tense form. 2) For questions, the question word or "if" is placed after the reporting verb, and the subject and verb are inverted compared to statements. 3) For orders and requests, "to" is added to the verb. Negative orders remove the auxiliary "do" but keep "not", also adding "to" to the main verb.

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    1) To summarize questions and orders reported in indirect speech, the references to people, places, and times are changed, and verbs are put into the appropriate past tense form. 2) For questions, the question word or "if" is placed after the reporting verb, and the subject and verb are inverted compared to statements. 3) For orders and requests, "to" is added to the verb. Negative orders remove the auxiliary "do" but keep "not", also adding "to" to the main verb.

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    1) To summarize questions and orders reported in indirect speech, the references to people, places, and times are changed, and verbs are put into the appropriate past tense form. 2) For questions, the question word or "if" is placed after the reporting verb, and the subject and verb are inverted compared to statements. 3) For orders and requests, "to" is added to the verb. Negative orders remove the auxiliary "do" but keep "not", also adding "to" to the main verb.

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    Reporting Questions Orders

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    Maria Esther Mercado Oviedo
    1) To summarize questions and orders reported in indirect speech, the references to people, places, and times are changed, and verbs are put into the appropriate past tense form. 2) For questions, the question word or "if" is placed after the reporting verb, and the subject and verb are inverted compared to statements. 3) For orders and requests, "to" is added to the verb. Negative orders remove the auxiliary "do" but keep "not", also adding "to" to the main verb.

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    REPORTED

    SPEECH QUESTIONS
    AND ORDERS

    STEP BY STEP
    Reporting questions is very similar to
    reporting statements
    We change references to people, places and times as
    well… but there are some differences.

    “What are you doing?” Tom asked.

    Tom asked (me) what I was doing .

    We DON’T
    now place
    FORGET!
    the SUBJECT
    Reported before
    questions
    the verb
    are (“are”)
    like
    Now we place the VERB(S) in a past tense after the
    statements,
    because
    We placethe
    the
    so
    word
    question-word
    we DO
    order
    NOTis the
    NEED
    after
    same
    the
    the
    as
    question
    reporting
    in statements:
    mark
    verb.
    (?).
    SUBJECT.
    Also remove(subject
    the inverted
    + verb).
    commas again.
    Let’s report yes/no questions now.
    There is a small difference between these questions and
    wh-questions.

    “Will you be here?” Tom asked.

    Tom asked (me) if I would be there.

    Instead of a question-word we now use


    “if” (or “whether”)
    Reporting questions with “do”
    Let’s see what happens if the question has the auxiliary
    verb “do” in the present.

    “Where do they come from?” Tom asked.

    Tom asked (me) where they came from.

    Reported questions are like positive statements, so


    we DO NOT NEED the auxiliary verb “do”.

    In this case “do” is present so we change the main


    verb (“come”) into the Past Simple.
    Reporting questions with “do”
    Let’s see what happens if the question has the auxiliary
    verb “do” in the past.

    “Did you see Jane?” Tom asked.

    Tom asked (me) if I had seen Jane.

    Again we DO NOT NEED the auxiliary verb “do”.

    In this case “did” is past so we change the main verb


    (“see”) into the Past Perfect: had + past participle.
    WORD ORDER in reported questions

    “How fast can you run?” Tom asked.

    Tom asked (me) how fast I could run.

    Speaker + reporting verb + question word + S + verb(s)


    (past) (or “if) (past)
    Let’s report the imperative for orders,
    requests, warnings...

    “Go to your room!”

    My mother told me to go to my room.

    Basically we need to add “to” to the verb


    and do the rest of the changes.
    Let’s report negative orders, requests,
    warnings…

    “Don’t make so much noise, Tom!”

    Tom’s mother asked him not to make so much noise.

    THAT’S ALL
    This time we just need
    FOR NOW!
    to remove the
    auxiliary “do” (just keep “not”) and add
    “to” to the main verb.

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