Indirect Speech Examples Questions. The sentence in indirect speech is in simple past passive tense. Again we also don t usually need to backshift change the tense of the verb as we do with reported questions.
For example direct speech. We don t need to use inversion. The person addressed does not hear and a bystander says he asked if you were going downtown that is an indirect question.
The sentence in indirect speech is in simple past passive tense.
Following are some examples of indirect questions. In direct speech the. She said i have finished my work. The basic rules for converting direct speech question sentences into indirect speech are as.
