By Indirect speech, Direct questions

Yes, you are absolutely right! It is indeed indirect speech (I realized it later after reading more) and then we don't use auxiliary "do" in indirect questions.But I found this to be a tricky one. Yes, I have Swan's book but he doesn't mention that we can use auxiliary do...

If we try and use the same approach:- DIRECT: Why do I have two cars?- INDIRECT: You may wonder why I have two cars. (NOT ... why do I have two cars.)

<< 1. Can you do the exercise on direct questions? OK. 2. The plane which I went to London on it has flown 10,000 miles. 3. Yesterday evening Bill had a phone call from Sally. He he was very surprised and happy because he had ahd written to her many times but she had never replied...

1. Can you do the exercise on direct questions?2. The plane which I went to London on it has flown 10,000 miles.3. Yesterday evening Bill had a phone call from Sally, he was very surprised and happy because he ahd written to her many times but she had never replied to his letters.4. Direct Speech...

The exercise sentence is in reported speech, also called 'indirect speech/question'. Therefore, the correct answer is B: 'My mother asked what the matter was with me'. The direct question could have been: 'What is the matter with you?'. Your last example is fine.

Right, I think I've got you now Pioussoul. It may work ok in your native language and I can get a sense of your meaning, but we can't phrase it that way in English. Do you think who came to see you? This is a sort of attempt to combine direct speech or thought with an indirect question and it...

"Who am I?" is correct if you are asking a direct question. In indirect speech you might say something like "I wonder who I am." Miriam ------------------------------ ~comes back to edit~ I forgot you asked "why". The verb "to be" doesn't use any auxiliaries in the present simple, so in order...