Juan asked me if we’d go to the cinema one day. Yes-no questions (oraciones interrogativas totales) take the following form: reporting verb + si (= if) Example: Juan me preguntó si íbamos un día al cine. Questions in reported speech do not take question marks. Sentences in reported speech take the following form: reporting verb + que (= that) Example: Juan dijo que estaba estupendamente. Indirect speech is therefore introduced by a reporting verb such as decir say, afirmar confirm, contar tell, exclamar exclaim, explicar explain, preguntar ask … Sentences Example: Juan dice que está estupendamente. Indirect speech reproduces something a person has said without quoting them exactly. Direct speech repeats someone’s utterance word-for-word and is placed within quotation marks (comillas: «…»).
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