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Reporting a STATEMENT is only the beginning. Questions and commands each need their own small twist — and once you know them, you can report anything anyone says.
Add "if" or "whether", remove the question mark, and put the words back in statement order.
"Are you coming?" she asked. → She asked if I was coming.
Word order flips back to a statement: "Are you coming" (question order) becomes "I was coming" (statement order) — the helping verb moves after the subject.
Keep the question word (where, what, why, how) — just no "if" or "whether" this time.
"Where do you live?" he asked. → He asked where I lived.
A command uses "told" and the word "to" — with "not to" for a negative command.
"Close the door," he said. → He told me to close the door.
"Don't touch that," she said. → She told him not to touch that.
12 IEO-style questions on reported speech. 🍀