2. Специальный вопрос (Special question).

Direct special questions	Indirect special questions
She asked, “Where do you live?” “When did he come?” “What are you doing?” “How have you done it?” “Where are you going to stay?” “When will you come back?” “Why must we go there?”	She where I lived. asked when he had come. wanted to know what I was doing. wondered how I had done it. where I was going to stay. when I would come back. why we had to go.

Exercise 9. Report the following general questions in Indirect Speech. Use different verbs

to introduce Indirect Questions. See the tables.

1. Do they like her?

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2. Will you be ready in time?

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3. Is there any food in the house?

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4. Can I pay by credit card?

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5. Is service included or not?

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6. Does my hair look funny?

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7. Has the postman been yet?

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8. Does he speak Japanese?

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9. Am I doing the right thing?

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10. Is the meeting on Tuesday or Wednesday?

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11. Will you come here tomorrow?

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12. Did anybody phone me last night?

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13. Have you packed your things?

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14. Can you call a taxi for me?

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Exercise 10. Report the following general questions, start with the words in brackets.

1. Have you found your identity card? (She asked me…)

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2. Are there any other tourists here? (The man asked…)

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3. Did she see her teacher yesterday? (I wanted to know…)

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4. Has she booked the holiday? (He didn’t ask her…)

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5. Is he coming back today? (I was not sure…)

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6. Were they on a bus tour last month? (I wondered…)

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7. Does she know the name of the artist? (We doubted….)

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8. Will you take me for a boat trip tomorrow? (My little sister asked us….)

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9. Can they play billiard? (We wondered…)

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10. Will you stay at home or go out tonight? (My friend wanted to know…)

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Exercise 11. Report the following special questions in Indirect Speech. Use different verbs

to introduce Indirect Questions. See the tables.

1. What’s Peter’s address?

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2. When is the new manager coming?

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3. How does she know my name?

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4. Why are all the windows open?

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5. How many books does he want?

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6. Where do they keep the money?

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7. When did the last train leave?

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8. Who has brought this letter?

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9. When will you be back home?

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10. Where are they going?

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11. Why didn’t you tell Anna the truth?

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12. Where has John gone?

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13. How can we get to the railway station?

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14. Why were you working at 9 p.m. yesterday evening?

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