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 SÍ / 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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