Can Form 8865 Indirect 2024

Hello and welcome back to part two of this lesson on indirect or reported speech. In part one, we looked at indirect statements and the changes you have to make to things like pronouns, tenses, and time markers. In this part, we're going to look at indirect questions, including polite questions and some specific cases. If you haven't watched part 1 yet, please click here to look at that part first. If you have already watched part 1, then you're ready to move on to part 2: indirect questions. So let's begin indirect or reported speech part two: questions. Let's look at the reporting verb for questions. The most common reporting verb for questions is "asked." You have a choice to specify the person after "asked" or not. If you specify the person, do not use "to." So, you can say "he asked" or "he asked me." Avoid saying "he asked to me" or "he asked to him," etc. Right, let's have a look at what changes, other than the changes that happen to statements. There is one more thing you must do when you formulate an indirect question, and that is you need to change the question form back into the statement form. Let's look at some examples: "He asked me, 'When can I call you back?'" Let's look at the indirect question. "He asked me when he could call me back." So, as in a statement, "I" has changed to "he," "can" has changed to "could," and you notice that now we've changed the question back into a statement. "He asked me when he could call me back," not "He asked me when could he call me back." Let's look at one more example. "They asked us, 'Where will you be?'" Let's look at the indirect question. "They asked us where we would...