Reported Speech Yes / No and Wh questions (Interrogative)

My friend said to me, "What are you going to do at the weekend?"

My friend wanted to know from me ................................ .

"Where will you live after graduation?" said my teacher.

My teacher inquired me ..................................................................... .

• where will you live after graduation?

• where you will live after graduation

• where will I live after graduation

• where I would live after graduation

Answer explanation

If the reporting verb is in past tense, simple conditional changes into conditional past.

Anusha said to me, "What were you doing when I saw you?"

Anusha asked me what ................................................................................................ .

Answer explanation

If the reporting verb is in past, past continuous in the direct speech changes into past perfect continuous and past simple changes into past perfect.

I said to the pilgrim, "How was the journey?"

• I asked the pilgrim how the journey had been.

• I inquired the pilgrim how the journey had been.

• I wanted to know from the pilgrim how the journey had been.

• I questioned the pilgrim how the journey had been.

"How often do you go to cinema?" said Krishna.

................................................................... .

• Krishna asked me how often I go to cinema.

• Krishna asked me how often I went to cinema.

• Krishna asked me how often you went to cinema.

• Krishna asked me how often I had gone to cinema.

Answer explanation

Second person pronoun changes according to object and simple present changes into past simple.

"Do you live in Patan?" said the Principal.

The Principal asked us ...................................... .

• if we lived in Patan

• whether we lived in Patan

• did we live in Patan

• if we live in Patan

Niraj said to Luniva, "Did Phadindra arrive on time?"

Niraj wanted to know from Luniva .............................. .

• if Phadindra arrived on time

• if Phadindra had arrived on time

• whether Phadindra had arrived on time

• if Phadindra did arrive on time

Sujita said to her mother, "When will my father come home?"

Sujita asked her mother............................................ .

• when her father would come home

• when will her father come home

• when would her father come home

• when her father will come home

She replied that she had never had caviar when I said to her, ".............caviar?"

• Have you ever had

• Will you ever have

• Would you ever have

• Did you have

When the salesperson said to him, "What ...................... for you?"

He replied him that he wanted him to show him a fine raincoat.

• I can

  do

• can I do

• I could do

• could I do