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Always Making Mistakes with Reported Questions? Master the Word Order and Tense of He asked me where I lived Once and for All

Telling someone else's question to a third person is called a reported question in English. Yes/No questions use if/whether, while Wh- questions keep the question word. For both, you must change the word order back to a declarative statement, remove the auxiliary verb, and shift the tense back one step. Once you master these three small steps, you'll never get stuck on reported questions again.