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Ramesh Reddy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

English grammar

In indirect speech, is it correct to write
Joe asked Gabriel, when did Mary reach home or when Mary had reached home. Please explain.
  

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" Joe asked Gabriel when Mary had reached home. We invert the subject and verb in direct questions. If there is no auxiliary or modal verb in the non-interrogative form (here, She reached home ), we use the auxiliary DO.

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  • " Joe asked Gabriel when Mary had reached home.
  • We invert the subject and verb in direct questions.
  • If there is no auxiliary or modal verb in the non-interrogative form (here, She reached home ), we use the auxiliary DO.
  • We do not invert the subject and verb in indirect questions and, if the indirect question is introduced by a word in a past tense (eg asked ), we normally backshift the tense of the verb in the question.
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oe: "When did Mary reach home, Gabriel?"

Joe asked Gabriel when Mary had reached home.


We invert the subject and verb in direct questions. If there is no auxiliary or modal verb in the non-interrogative form (here, She reached home), we use the auxiliary DO. We do not invert the subject and verb in indirect questions and, if the indirect question is intr
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