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The commander asked:” Do our soldiers have enough weapons?”
The commander wanted to know if their/his soldiers had enough weapons.
He asked:” Are we going to start work tomorrow?”
He asked if they were going to start work the next day.
They inquired:” Have they ever been to America?”
They inquired if they had ever been to America.
The watchmaker asked:” Did you buy this Swiss watch at my place”?
The watchmaker asked if he/she had bought that Swiss watch at his place
The doctor wanted to know:” Have you had the symptoms for a long time?”
The doctor wanted to know if I had had the symptoms for a long time.
Sophie said:”I went to bed early last night”. (Sophie said ….)
Sophie said that she had gone to bed early that night.
He told me:”You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen”. (He told me …)
He told me that I was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen
He said:” Tomorrow at five o’clock I will be sitting on a train to Glasgow.” (He said that…)
He said that the next day at five o’clock he would be sitting on a train to Glasgow.
Mrs. Wilson: “No one has ever spoken to me like this before.” (Mrs. Wilson said …)
Mrs. Wilson said that no one had ever spoken to her like that before
He asked:”Where have you been Tom?”
He asked me where I had been
The referee asked:”How many players do you want to substitute?”
The referee asked how many players I/we/he wanted to substitute.
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 teacher asked:” Who were they travelling with yesterday?”
The teacher asked who they had been travelling with the day before
