

Indirect: He wanted to know if I had ever played for my school soccer team. This exercise is an advanced level multiple choice test with multiple choice questions on reported speech (indirect speech) including the topics below. Indirect: He wanted to know if I had told the truth to the police.ĭirect: He said, "Have you ever played for your school soccer team?"

Indirect: The doctor asked me if my father drank wine.ĭirect: He wanted to know, "Did you tell the truth to the police?" Yes/No questions are converted into indirect speech using "if" or "whether".ĭirect : The doctor told me, "Does your father drink wine?" Indirect: Hill asked me how long I would stay in Greece. Indirect: She asked me how my brother was.ĭirect : Hill said, "How long will you stay in Greece?" Change these direct questions into reported speech: (Schimba aceste intrebari directe in vorbire indirecta).

If the direct question begins with a question word like how much, where, when, how, which, why, whose, what etc., we repeat the same question word in the indirect speech.ĭirect : She said, "How is your brother?" All the other changes in indirect speech still apply. We change the interrogative word-order to statement word-order.Ĭ. We use introductory verbs like ask, wonder, want to know, inquire.ī. Reported Mixed Exercise Reported Questions Grammar:Ī.
