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51 El estilo indirecto (2): reported questions
Los verbos introductorios para preguntas en estilo indirecto son ask (preguntar), want to know (querer
saber) y wonder (preguntarse). Para poner en estilo indirecto lo que otras personas preguntaron, debemos
tener en cuenta el tipo de pregunta. Muchas preguntas exigen sólo una respuesta del tipo sí/no’.
ESTILO DIRECTO
VERBO INTRODUCTORIO
CITA
Albert asked:
(Albert preguntó:
‘Are they English?’
‘¿Son ingleses?’)
ESTILO INDIRECTO
VERBO INTRODUCTORIO
CONJUNCIÓN
CITA TRANSFORMADA
Albert asked
(Albert preguntó
… if …
… si …
they were English.
eran ingleses.)
Otras preguntas exigen respuestas diversas, dependiendo del pronombre interrogativo (who, what, when,
how, etc). En este caso, el pronombre interrogativo se mantiene en el estilo indirecto:
ESTILO DIRECTO
VERBO INTRODUCTORIO
CITA
Alice asked:
(Alice preguntó:
‘Where does Ann live?’
‘¿Dónde vive Ann?’)
ESTILO INDIRECTO
VERBO INTROD.
PRONOMBRE INTERROGATIVO
Alice asked
(Alice preguntó
… where …
… dónde …
CITA TRANSFORMADA
Ann lived.
vivía Ann.)
Cuando narramos las preguntas que se hicieron en el pasado, el verbo introductorio va en pasado (me
preguntaron si …) y eso produce transformaciones importantes en los tiempos verbales que le siguen:
ESTILO DIRECTO
ESTILO INDIRECTO
EJEMPLOS
PRESENT:
PAST:
am/is
are
live/lives
am/is/are living
was
were
lived
was/were living
Kim wondered:‘Is that the museum?’
(Kim se preguntó:‘¿Es ese el museo?’)
Kim wondered if that was the museum.
(Kim se preguntó si ese era el museo.)
PRESENT PERFECT:
PAST PERFECT:
has/have seen
had seen
PAST SIMPLE:
PAST PERFECT:
arrived
had arrived
MODALS:
will
can
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would
could
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Alan asked her:‘Have you enjoyed the
concert?’ (Alan le preguntó a ella:‘¿Has
disfrutado el concierto?’) Alan asked her if she
had enjoyed the concert. (Alan le preguntó a
ella si había disfrutado el concierto.)
Elaine asked me:‘When did you last go
shopping?’ (Elaine me preguntó:‘¿Cuándo
fuiste de compras por última vez?’)
Elaine asked me when I had last gone
shopping. (Elaine me preguntó cuándo había
ido de compras por última vez.)
Robert wanted to know:‘Can you swim?’
(Robert quiso saber:‘¿Sabes nadar?’)
Robert wanted to know if I could swim.
(Robert quiso saber si yo sabía nadar.)
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Ejercicios
A
Use the words in brackets to write a question, and then complete the reported
question.
0 (Where/have/Maria/go/?)
Where has Maria gone?
Reported question: I asked where Maria had gone.
Question:
1 (do/Jim/often/play/football/?)
Question:
Reported question: I wondered if
2 (What/have/the children/eat/?)
Question:
Reported question: She wanted to know
3 (Where/be/Mark/going/?)
Question:
Reported question: I asked
4 (When/the next bus/arrive/?)
Question:
Reported question: We wanted to know
5 (Have/Ann/see/this film/?)
Question:
Reported question: Tom asked
6 (How much/money/will/I/need/?)
Question:
Reported question: Sarah wondered
B
Steven Ellis robbed a bank. The police believe that Alan Reeves helped him.
A policeman asked Reeves these questions:
0 How long have you been out of prison?
1 Have you worked since then?
2 Does your sister give you money?
3 Who else gives you money?
4 Do you know Steven Ellis?
5 How long have you known Steven?
Later the policeman talked about the interview. Complete what he said, using the
questions in the box.
0 I asked him how long he had been out of prison
prison six months ago.
1 Then I asked him
found a job.
2 I asked him
money, but not very much.
3 Then I asked him
did.
4 I asked him
friends.
5 So I asked him
him for six years.
, and he replied that he had left
. He told me that he hadn’t
, and he said she did give him some
. He replied that nobody else
, and he said that he and Steven were
, and he said that he had known
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