Changing Interrogative Sentences Into Indirect Speech. Put the question word wh family word at the beginning of the reported speech. Ii the interrogative form of the verb is changed into affirmative form by placing the subject before the verb and deleting the question mark.
Interrogative sentences beginning with a question word when a question begins with a question word such as what who whom when where why how etc the same word is used to introduce the question in the indirect speech. In this exercise we will practice questioning sentences. The conjunction that will not be used in indirect speech in question sentence.
Examples are at the end.
Interrogative sentences beginning with a question word when a question begins with a question word such as what who whom when where why how etc the same word is used to introduce the question in the indirect speech. Change in reported speech while converting any interrogative sentence into passive voice all the following changes are made quite similarly as defined in the previous chapter of narrations of simple sentences. Comma and inverted commas will be removed. An indirect statement is expressed by changing the case of the subject noun phrase from nominative to accusative and by replacing the main verb with an infinitive as in the.
