English · Feelings and Emotions
Reported speech — reporting questions
Turn a direct question into a smooth, reported one
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Converting direct questions to reported questions (word order, no auxiliary, if/whether for yes-no Qs)
The method
- Reported question keeps statement word order, drops the question-mark auxiliary inversion
The common mistakes
- Keeping the auxiliary-subject inversion in a reported question
From the lesson
Read how a journalist writes up an interview. The guest was asked one simple question.
The vocabulary
- ask whether/if (يسأل عما إذا)
What is not on the syllabus
- Reported statements (treated in the Ethics in Business unit)
- Reported instructions/orders (next concept)