English test (Reporting speech)
Answer this questions about Reporting Speech to train your English. Read and answer carefully. Good luck! 📚🌎
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In yes/no questions, we use if or whether to report the question. If is more common. 'Are you going to the Helsinki conference?'
He asked me if I went to the Helsinki conference.
He asked me if I did went to the Helsinki conference.
He asked me if I am going to the Helsinki conference.
He asked me if I would go to the Helsinki conference.
He asked me if I was going to the Helsinki conference.
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'Have you finished the project yet?'
She asked us whether we could finish the project yet.
She asked us whether we will finish the project yet.
She asked us whether we had been finishing the project yet.
She asked us whether we'd finished the project yet.
She asked us whether we are finishing the project yet.
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In what, where, why, who, when or how questions, we use the question word to report the question. 'What time does the train leave?'
He asked me what time the train left.
He asked me what time will the train leave.
He told me what time the train has left.
He asked me what time did the train left.
He asked me what time would the train leave.
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Where did he go?
She asked where he would be.
She asked where he had been.
She asked where he went.
She asked where did he go.
She asked where he go.
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The most common reporting verb for questions is ask, but we can also use verbs like enquire, want to know or wonder. 'Did you bring your passports?'
She wanted to know if they had bring their passports.
She wanted to knew if they’d brought their passports.
She wanted to know if they’d be bringing their passports.
She wanted to know if they would bring their passports.
She wanted to know if they'd brought their passports.
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'When could you get this done by?'
He wondered when we could be get it done by.
He wondered when we could had get it done by.
He wondered when we could get it done by.
He wondered when we could get done by.
He wondered when we could got it done by.
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If the question is making an offer, request or suggestion, we can use a specific verb pattern instead, for example offer + infinitive, ask + infinitive or suggest + ing. it. 'Why don't we check with Joel?'
She had suggested us to checking with Joel.
She had suggested us to check with Joel.
She suggested us to check with Joel.
She suggested checking with Joel.
She suggested to be checking with Joel.
