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The teacher wanted to know who had discovered America.
"Who discovered America?”
The referee asked: "How many players do you want to substitute?"
The referee asked how many players I/we wanted to substitute.
He asked: "What would you do if you were a celebrity?"
He asked me what I would have done if I had been a celebrity.
She wondered how much pay she could expect.
"How much pay can I expect?"
The captain asked the guide when they would get to the coast.
"When will we get to the coast, guide?"
The gardener inquired: "Why didn’t you buy a new shovel?"
The gardener inquired why I hadn’t bought a new shovel.
The zookeeper asked: "How much food did the lions eat last week?"
The zookeeper asked how much food the lions had eaten the week before.
The rock star asked: "Would you sing the song with me?"
The rock star asked me if I would sing the song with him.
He wanted to know: "How long has Peter had his sports car?"
He wanted to know how long Peter had had his sports car.
The coach asked what Jack was doing then.
"What is Jack doing now?"
The teacher asked: "Who were they travelling with yesterday?"
The teacher asked who they had been travelling with the day before.
The helper asked: "What time are you going to finish tomorrow?"
The helper asked what time we were going to finish the next day/day after.
The people asked: "Where would he go if he had the money?" Hint: 3rd conditional
The people asked where he would have gone if he had had the money.
The hired workers asked when they would be paid.
"When will we be paid?"
The fireman asked when the fire engine was going to be ready.
"When is the fire engine going to be ready?"
The player wondered: "How many goals will we score this week?"
The player wondered how many goals they would score that week.
