Indirect speech

Faraz Khan What is the reported speech of : Would you mind playing cricket?

How about if you try first?

[I / You / He / She / ...] asked ...

(You didn't tell us who said it.)

CJ

He asked, "would you mind playing cricket?"

Faraz KhanHe asked, "Would you mind playing cricket?"

OK. Now you have a more complete form of the direct speech form.

Start the indirect form: He asked if ...

What comes next? Doesn't your book give you any clues?

CJ

He asked if you wouldn't mind playing cricket.

Faraz KhanHe asked if you wouldn't mind playing cricket.

Correct. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Just remember that with questions the indirect speech has 'asked if'.

CJ

What is the reported speech of :

Would you mind playing cricket?

I would report it as He asked if you would mind playing cricket.
ie not wouldn't

Say 'you' if you are reporting to the person who was originally addressed by the direct speec

Dear Clive!In this question, the person who presents the request asks a positive question, but its positive answer is No, I wouldn't. Now when we report this request then we also expect the positive answer. So we don't say If you would mind. We say If you wouldn't mind.

Faraz Khan Dear Clive!In this question, the person who presents the request asks a positive question, but its positive answer is No, I wouldn't. Now when we report this request then we also expect the positive answer. So we don't say If you would mind. We say If you wouldn't mind.

Clive is correct. You are not. We report the question s it was asked. We don't e

fivejedjonWe report the question s it was asked. We don't expect any kind of answer when we report a question.

Nevertheless, in real life I think I'd be more likely to report that as ... asked if you wouldn't mind ... regardless of what is taught in classrooms — to the point that I completely missed the change from would to wouldn't becaus

What happened to Clive's reply? Last time I looked there was another post here.

CJ