QUESTION FORM

INDIRECT FORM

My friend said "How are you?"

My friend asked how I was.

TRANSFORMATION PROCESS:

1) Put the subject before the verb.

2) Change the pronoun: you to I

3) Join the clauses using the how,
who, whom, where, when, why

4) Adjust the 2nd verb to
the time frame of the 1^st verb.

WH- QUESTION

VERB TENSE CHANGE

PRESENT

PAST

My friend said,

"How are you?"

My friend asked how I was.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PAST PROGRESSIVE

My friend said,

"Where are you going?"

My friend asked where I was going.

PAST

PAST PERFECT

My friend said,

" Whom did you call?"

My friend asked whom I had called.

PAST PROGRESSVE

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSVE

My friend said,

" Whom I was calling?"

My friend asked whom I had been calling.

PRESENT PERFECT

PAST PERFECT

My friend said,

" Where have you been?"

My friend asked where I had been.

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSVE

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSVE

My friend said,

" How have you been doing?"

My friend asked how I had been doing.

PRESENT - GENERAL TRUTH

PRESENT - GENERAL TRUTH

My friend said,

"Where is Venus?"

My friend asked where Venus is.