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  15th May next exam QUESTIONS IN REPORTED SPEECH We have explained the questions in Reported Speech, id est,  yes/no questions, wh-words questions and subject questions. Here you have the corrections of the given photocopy. 1.      -"Where is my umbrella?" she asked.  She asked where her umbrella was. 2.     -"How are you?" Martin asked us. Martin asked us how we were. 3.     -He asked, "Do I have to do it?" He asked if he had to do it. 4.     -"Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter. The mother asked her daughter where she had been. 5.     -"Which of the dresses do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend. She asked her boyfriend which of the dresses he liked best. 6.     -"What are they doing?" she asked. She asked what they were doing. 7.     -"Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me He asked me if I was going to the c

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PASSIVE WITH VERBS OF SAYING AND BELIEVING: IT IS SAID (THAT)... 1. IT+ PASSIVE+ (THAT )CLAUSE WITH: agree, believe, consider, decide, hope, know, say It is said (that )there is plenty of oil off our own coast. 2- THERE+ PASSIVE + TO BE WITH : believe, fear, know, report, say, suppose, think. There is said to be plenty of oil off our own coast. 3. SUBJECT (NOT IT) + PASSIVE+  TO-INFINITIVE WITH: believe, consider, know, say, allege. Jane /she is said to know all there is to know about chimpanzees.