Langue anglaise · Feelings and Emotions
Reported speech — reporting questions
Turn a direct question into a smooth, reported one
6 minutes
Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.
Ce que le programme attend de toi
- Converting direct questions to reported questions (word order, no auxiliary, if/whether for yes-no Qs)
La méthode
- Reported question keeps statement word order, drops the question-mark auxiliary inversion
Les erreurs fréquentes
- Keeping the auxiliary-subject inversion in a reported question
Extrait du cours
Read how a journalist writes up an interview. The guest was asked one simple question.
Le vocabulaire
- ask whether/if (يسأل عما إذا)
Ce qui n’est pas au programme
- Reported statements (treated in the Ethics in Business unit)
- Reported instructions/orders (next concept)