This grammar exercise tests your ability to report questions. Fill in the blanks.
1The teacher asked me if I ............... the answer.
Wrong!
'Do you know the answer?' the teacher asked. / The teacher asked if I knew the answer.
2The man asked the boy where ............... going.
Wrong!
In reported questions, the auxiliary verb goes after the subject.
3She asked ............... dinner was ready.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
We use if or whether to report Yes/No questions.
4He asked ...............
Wrong!
5I asked the postman if he ............... any letters for me.
Wrong!
6I asked her if she ............... to their party.
Wrong!
7I asked him if ............... my passport?
Wrong!
8She asked me ...............
Wrong!
9She asked me if ............... my pen.
Wrong!
10She asked ............... with her money.
Wrong!
11They wondered ............... that problem.
Wrong!
12She asked ............... at her.
Wrong!
Done.
Score: 0/12
Answers
- The teacher asked me if I knew the answer.
- The man asked the boy where he was going.
- She asked if/whether dinner was ready.
- He asked where I worked
- I asked the postman if he had any letters for me.
- I asked her if she had been invited to their party.
- I asked him if he had seen my passport?
- She asked me where I had been
- She asked me if she could borrow my pen.
- She asked what I had done with her money.
- They wondered how they would solve that problem.
- She asked why I was yelling at her.
