Reported questions

Reported questions
1 When we report someone else’s yes/no questions, we use if or whether.
1 ‘Do you like the advert?’ He wanted to know if I liked the advert.
2 ‘Is he going to retire soon?’ She asked whether he was going to retire soon.
3 ‘Have you seen the new logo?’ We asked them if they had seen the new logo.
2 If the main verb in the question is be, we sometimes put be at the end of the reported question, especially in short questions with be.
1 ‘Where is he?’ She asked where he was.
2 ‘What is the problem?’ We wanted to know what the problem was.
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