Revise the rule if necessary and choose the correct options

Reported questions

They are used for reporting other people's questions.

Direct Speech:

'What is your mother tongue, Peter?' asked Jane.

Indirect Speech:

Jane asked Peter what his mother tongue was.

When reporting somebody's questions in indirect speech (in the past), we need to change:

• tenses;
• pronouns;
• time;
• place.

Tense and modal verbs changes:

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
Present Simple	Past Simple
Present Continuous	Past Continuous
Present Perfect	Past Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous
am/is/are going to	was/were going to
will	would
Past Simple	Past Perfect
Past Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous
can	could
may	might
must/have to	had to

The tense is not changed:

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
Past Perfect	Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous

Determiner changes:

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
this	that
these	those

Time and place changes:

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
now	then
yesterday	the day before
last week	the week before
ago	before
next week	the following week
tomorrow	the following day
tonight	that night
here	there

Word order:

In general questions (yes/no questions) we use if and a direct word order(a subject and a verb).

Direct Speech:

'Do you know anything about language barriers?' asked James.

Indirect Speech:

James asked if I knew anything about language barriers.

In special questions we use a question word and a direct word order(a subject and a verb).

Direct Speech:

'Where is your sister, Rick?' asked Kelly.

Indirect Speech:

Kelly asked Rick where his sister was.
Reported questions

1. Ben asked us
   [do we have|if we had|if we have] enough time.
2. Julia asked us
   [how we could spread|how we can spread|how could we spread] the necessary information among the team members.
3. Ann wanted to know
   [are we planning|if we were planning|if we are planning] to attend the show that year.
4. Sam asked his sister
   [had she heard|if she has heard|if she had heard] that news.
5. Daryl wanted to know
   [where Sam was|where was Sam|where Sam is].
6. Victor asked Tony
   [if he was|if he is|is he] ill.
7. Rick wanted to know
   [when would they visit|when they would visit|when they will visit] their grandmother.
8. Jenna asked
   [how long had Diana been waiting|how long Diana had been waiting|how long Diana has been waiting] for her.