Page 2: Indirect Questions and Reporting Commands
This page focuses on forming indirect speech questions and reporting commands, requests, advice, and suggestions.
For indirect questions, the word order changes to subject-verb-object, and auxiliary verbs (do, does, did) are not used. Yes/no questions are introduced with "if" or "whether" in indirect speech.
Example:
Direct: "What are you talking about?"
Indirect: He asked what we were talking about.
Commands, requests, advice, and suggestions are typically reported using infinitive constructions:
- Requests: ask someone to do something
- Commands: tell someone to do something
- Advice: advise someone to do something
- Suggestions: suggest (that) someone do something or suggest doing something
Highlight: After "suggest," a to-infinitive cannot be used. Instead, use a gerund or a that-clause.
Example:
Direct: "Let's go for a pizza."
Indirect: Bobby suggested going for a pizza. (NOT: Bobby suggested to go for a pizza.)