Discurso Indireto
Wh - questions
1 Em inglês, as wh-questions são perguntas começadas por palavras interrogativas do tipo: what, who(m), whose, which, when, where, why, how.
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2 Consideremos a frase seguinte na interrogativa direta do tipo wh-:
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He asked, "Where are the children?"
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Para convertê-la em interrogativa indireta, siga os seguintes passos:
(a) comece por:
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He asked ...
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(b) introduza o pronome pessoal me (como opção):
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He asked (me) ...
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(c) adicione o advérbio where da interrogativa direta:
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He asked (me) where ...
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(d) mude a ordem das palavras "verbo + sujeito" (are the children) para "sujeito + verbo" e recue o tempo verbal para o passado:
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He asked (me) where the children were
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(e) termine a frase com ponto final:
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He asked (me) where the children were.
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NOTA: Repare na ausência dos recursos gráficos na interrogativa indireta (que são somente empregues na interrogativa direta): a vírgula (,), as aspas ("...") e o ponto de interrogação (?).
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3 Os passos apresentados no ponto anterior aplicam-se quando os verbos são do tipo be (principal ou auxiliar), have (auxiliar) e modais (can, will, may, etc.):
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He asked, "How is the baby?"
He asked (me) how the baby was.
He asked, "Who are you going out with?"
He asked (me) who I was going out with.
He asked, "How many exercises have you done?"
He asked (me) how many exercises I had done.
He asked, "When can Susan see me?"
He asked (me) when Susan could see him.
He asked, "What will you be doing?"
He asked (me) what I would be doing.
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4 Os verbos auxiliares do, does, did (nas interrogativas diretas) desaparecem nas interrogativas indiretas:
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He asked, "What do you want?"
He asked (me) what I wanted.
He asked, "Where does she live?"
He asked (me) where she lived.
He asked, "Why didn't she telephone?"
He asked (me) why she hadn't telephoned.
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