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Grammar and Linguistics > Reporting question
Reporting question
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yingying
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Reporting question
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Rewrite the following question by reporting speech.
She asked me, " Have you finished homework yet?"
Which is right?
A. She asked me if I had finished homework yet.
or
B. She asked me if I had finished homework.
Thanks a bunch. |
9 Jun 2009
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saninfe
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The correct form will be :
She asked me if I had already finished homework.
That �s because yet (grammar according) is used in negatives and interrogatives. |
9 Jun 2009
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cathrine
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but as you are "reporting" ie repeating what was said, it would be "She asked me if I had finished my homework yet"
"she asked me if I had already finished my homework" doesn �t sound right (as a native speaker)  |
9 Jun 2009
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Zora
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I �d have to agree with Catherine... as a native speaker the "already" sentence sounds weird because I think that to us the question, even though it �s in the reported form, is still being implied...
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9 Jun 2009
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douglas
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I agree with cathrine and Zora,--note also that it should be "my homework"--something that is missing in the original statement as well. |
9 Jun 2009
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