Ahora aprenderás a escribir y reportar preguntas en pasado. En caso de expresar que alguien te realizó una pregunta ten en cuenta el tiempo verbal de la pregunta y no el texto de manera literal.
Estructura: Emisor + asked + receptor + mensaje.
Preguntas en presente simple
Si la pregunta está conjugada de la forma present simple, entonces, para transmitir el mensaje a alguien más, deberás conjugarla en la forma past simple.
Original question: How much do you earn? (He asked me)
Reported question: He asked me how much I earned.
Preguntas en pasado simple
Si la pregunta está conjugada de la forma past simple. Entonces, para transmitir el mensaje a alguien más, deberás conjugarla en la forma past perfect simple.
Original question: What did you do yesterday? (Jhon asked my friend)
Reported question: Jhon asked my friend what he had done yesterday.
Ejemplos para transmitir preguntas en pasado
Original question: Why do you like cars so much?
Reported question: She asked me why I liked cars so much.
Original question: Why did she wake up so early in the morning?
Reported question: He asked me why she had woken up so early.
Original question: When is your birthday?
Reported question: He asked me when my birthday was.
Original question: How long were they there?
Reported question: He asked me how long they had been there.
Ejercicios para transmitir preguntas en pasado
Entra en el siguiente enlace y resuelve la actividad.
1- Jhon asked me how old Darla was.
2- She asked me where I had studied yesterday.
3- My mom asked my sister what he had said.
4- He asked me why I had come here today.
5- My dad asked me how much he had spent.
6- My friend asked me when Sally´s birthday was.
7- She asked me why they were going to the supermarket.
8- He asked Bob where they went in such a hurry.
9- She asked us whose phone it was.
10- He asked the kids who had come in the afternoon.
