Questões de Discurso direto e indireto | Reported speech (Inglês)

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Escolha a opção gramaticalmente CORRETA para a redação de perguntas diretas e indiretas em inglês:

  • A Pergunta direta: Was he studying what? Pergunta indireta: Can you tell me he what was studying?
  • B Pergunta direta: What he was studying? Pergunta indireta: Can you tell me he was studying what?
  • C Pergunta direta: What was he studying? Pergunta indireta: Can you tell me what he was studying?
  • D Pergunta direta: What was he study? Pergunta indireta: Can you tell me what he was study?

In the sentence “The main aim was to build new areas of protected rainforest, maintain areas of the rainforest that hadn’t yet been destroyed, and stop deforestation.”, the underlined words are in the:

  • A Passive voice.
  • B Past perfect.
  • C Present perfect.
  • D Simple past.
  • E Reported speech.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, reported speech or indirect speech is the act of reporting something that was said, without using exactly the same words. In light of this information, the sentence “We’re going to win that case”, said by Biden, should be, in reported speech,

  • A Biden told a TV news correspondent that they were going to win that case.
  • B Biden said a TV news correspondent that they were going to win that case.
  • C Biden told that TV news correspondent that they are going to win that case.
  • D Biden told to a TV news correspondent that they are going to win that case.
  • E Biden said a TV news correspondent that we were going to win that case.

The passage “In a recent report, Ali Noorani, the chief executive of the National Immigration Forum, an immigration-advocacy group, and a co-author, Danilo Zak, say that increasing legal immigration by slightly more than a third each year would keep America’s ratio of working young people to retired old people stable over the next four decades.” contains an example of

  • A reported speech.
  • B direct speech.
  • C adverb clause of place.
  • D adverb clause of time.