Reported Questions

Reported questions have the word order of a statement (postive sentence).
a) questions asking for details (What? Which? Where? Who? When? and so on.)
For example: "Where was your brother yesterday?"

  • REPORTED SPEECH: She asked where my borther had been the day before.

b) general questions, formed using conjunctions like if and whether.
For example: "Are you hungry?"

  • REPORTED SPEECH: He asked whether I was hungry.

 

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