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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

How to change this to indirect speech?

She asked me, "What were you going to do after the concert?"

How will this look when changed to indirect speech?

Thanks in advance.
  

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Tell us what you think first. Hint: It's something like this. She asked me what I ...

  • Tell us what you think first.
  • Hint: It's something like this.
  • She asked me what I ...
  • after the concert.
  • CJ
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Tell us what you think first. Hint: It's something like this.

She asked me what I ... after the concert.

CJ

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Hi,

She asked me, "What were you going to do after the concert?"

How will this look when changed to indirect speech?


She asked me what I had been going to do after the concert.

Best wishes, Clive

PS Oops, sorry, gave the game away.
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I would have said:

She asked me what I was going to do after the concert.

Isn't that indirect enough? Emotion: smile
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Thank you, Calif Jim. Yes, this is indirect enough, but, unfortunately, the meaning is different. In my scenario, the girl in the above sentence met me at the bar, say, an hour after the concert, and was surprised to see me. So she asked me what my aftertheconcert plans had been. I said, "I was going to meet my girlfriend, go to her place and [let's say] have ***. But she didn't show up, so I'm he
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Thanks a lot. I thought so, but is sounded strange, so I decided to ask.
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Hi guys,

I don't think we often use the perfect forms of the idiom be going to, do we?

I'm not so sure about that. Sounds fine to me. Also, less ambiguous in various cases. Each to their own, I guess.
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00It might be worth pointing out to learners that in speech this tense would normally involve a quick contraction.02br
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00In your interpretation of that sentence, it seems like the girl at the bar is asking me about my plans12blockquote
10 I don't follow this. If the concert is finished, and you and the girl are at the bar now, and she asks you what you were going to do after the concert, then in your place I would still say, later, "(At the bar,) she ask

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