Questions for changing Direct Speech into Indirect

104. In reporting questions the Indirect Speech is introduced by some such verbs as

asked, inquired, etc.

When the question is not introduced by an interrogative word, the reporting verb is

followed by whether or if.

Direct. -- He said to me, “What are you doing ?”

Indirect. -- He asked me what I was doing.

Direct. -- “Where do you live?” asked the stranger.

Indirect. -- The stranger enquired where I lived.

Direct. -- The policeman said to us, “Where are you going ?”

Indirect. -- The policeman enquired where we were going.

Direct. -- He said, “Will you listen to such a man?”

Indirect. -- He asked them whether they would listen to such a man.

[Or] Would they, he asked, listen to such a man ?

Direct. – “Do you suppose you know better than your own father?”

jeered his angry mother.

Indirect. -- His angry mother jeered and asked whether he supposed that he knew better

than his own father.