What Herbert ??? (Unnecessary)
Access prior knowledge, make connections and set up a reason
Given sentence :
- She asked me 'What time are we going to leave tomorrow?
Answer :
- She asked me that at what time were we going to leave the next day.
Some rules of conversion of statements :
- The reporting verb "said" is changed into "told" .
- The inverted commas are removed and "that" is placed instead.
- If the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the tense of the verb in the reported speech is not changed.
- If the reported speech expresses some "universal truth" or "habitual action", the tense of the verb is not changed
