REPORTED QUESTIONS


REPORTED QUESTIONS
Es una estructura que usamos cuando reportamos o hacemos mención sobre algo que alguien ha preguntado previamente. Al informar de lo que la gente dice, solemos cambiar el tiempo de los verbos para indicar que estamos reportando - no dar el discurso directo.

Cuando hay una palabra interrogativa (what, where, why, who, when, how) usamos esa palabra de pregunta en la pregunta de referencia pero no hay verbo auxiliar y el orden de las palabras es como una frase afirmativa.
Ejemplos:

·         Direct question: “Who did you see?”

·         Reported question: She asked me who I’d seen.

·         Direct question: “Where did you go to school?”

·         Reported question: He asked me where I’d gone to school.

·         Direct question: “Why are you crying?”

·         Reported question: She asked him why he was crying.



Reportó / NO preguntas
Presentamos preguntas SÍ / NO informadas con preguntar + si :
direct question
She said,
"Do you like coffee?"
reported question
She asked
if I liked coffee.

Ejemplos de direct speech y reported speech con What, Where, When, Who, Why, Which, Whose.



              Direct Speech                                                                    Reported Speech

"What are you looking for?"                →             He asked what I was looking for

"Where can we go tonight?"                →            She asked where they could go that night

"When did they go to India?"              →             He asked when they had gone to India

"Who told you that?"                           →            He asked me who had told me that

"How old are the twins?"                     →            He asked how old the twins were

"Why did Carla leave so early?"          →              He asked why Carla had left so early

"Which skirt did you choose?"            →               She asked me which skirt I had chosen

"Whose dog is missing?"                     →               He asked whose dog was missing



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