How to use REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS in English

Why do we use REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS in English? Well, when we tell another person about a question someone asked, we need to make a few changes to make that sentence. REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS can be a bit difficult for students of English but we&learn how to do it together in this video lesson right now! 0:00 Why do we need REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS? 1:08 Examples of REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS 3:50 REPORTED SPEECH for QUESTIONS practice quiz TRANSCRIPT In the last two videos, we looked at reported speech. We looked at how to change direct speech into reported speech and we also discussed why that was so useful, why it&important and why it&so common in English. We focused in particular on the changes that are made, particularly the changes to the verb when we&reporting something. In this video lesson, we&going to look at reporting questions. Now a question obviously is a little bit different to a statement, the structure of the sentence is normally a bit different. So we&look at three different examples of questions and we&look at how we report questions. We&look at examples to help us understand it, we&look at the structure of reported questions and then at the end we&do a quick quiz to help you practise. So, as I said, the first thing to remember is the structure of a question in English is a bit different to the structure of a statement. So let&look at an example to see what I mean. "Where do you live?" The question word is &the auxiliary verb is...