Direct And Indirect Speech Questions Medium
To change reported questions into indirect speech, there are a few key steps to follow:
1. Remove the question mark and rephrase the question into a statement.
2. Use a reporting verb such as "asked," "inquired," or "wondered" to introduce the reported speech.
3. Change the tense of the verb in the reported speech according to the rules of sequence of tenses.
4. Change the pronouns and possessive adjectives in the reported speech to reflect the perspective of the speaker in the reported speech.
5. If necessary, change time expressions and adverbs of place and time to match the reported speech.
For example, let's consider the reported question: "She asked, 'Where are you going?'"
The indirect speech version would be: She asked where I was going.
In this example, we removed the question mark and rephrased the question into a statement ("Where are you going?" -> "where I was going"). We used the reporting verb "asked" to introduce the reported speech. The tense of the verb "are" was changed to "was" to match the past tense of the reporting verb. The pronoun "you" was changed to "I" to reflect the perspective of the speaker in the reported speech.