Reported Speech - questions

Reported Speech - questions

    Tourists Stranded in a Forest 

    It has been reported that a number of tourists lost their way in a forest last Friday. Fortunately, they have been rescued by a local rescue team.

    When Andrew Macpherson, ‘The Hiker’ reporter, interviewed them yesterday they explained that they had been walking in this part of the forest for the first time. The reporter asked them if they had taken a map with them and why they had not taken their mobile phones. He also wanted to know what they had eaten during those four days in the forest and how they had got lost.

    Answers to these and other questions you will find in the latest issue of ‘The Hiker’ magazine. 
     

Zasady tworzenia pytań  w mowie zależnej:

  • pytania mają szyk zdania oznajmującego – brak inwersji
  • w pytaniach zaczynających się w języku polskim od czy, używamy spójników if lub whether,

    np. He asked: ‘Have you read the book?

          He asked if I had read the book.

  • w innych pytaniach korzystamy z odpowiednich wyrazów pytających,

            np. She asked: ‘Where did you go yesterday?’

                  She asked where I had gone the day before.

  • pytania w mowie zależnej wprowadza czasownik ask, a także czasowniki inquire, wonder,  
    want to know.

 

Exercise:

  Jack interviewed a famous singer. He asked her the following questions. Turn them into   
     reported speech.

  1. ‘Do you enjoy being a singer?’  
    Jack asked .........................................................................................
  2. ‘How many albums have you recorded?’ 
    ............................................................................................................
  3. ‘Have you visited many interesting countries?’ 
    ............................................................................................................
  4. ‘What are your plans for the nearest future?’ 
    ............................................................................................................
  5. ‘Was it difficult to become a singer?’ 
    ...........................................................................................................

Key: 1. her if she enjoyed/enjoys being a singer 2. Jack asked her how many albums she had recorded. 3. Jack asked her if she had visited many interesting countries. 4. Jack asked her what were her plans for the nearest future. 5. Jack asked her if it had been difficult to become a singer.