3. 直接引语为特殊疑问句时如何变为间接引语的方法

将直接引语变为由“疑问词”引导的宾语从句跟在引述动词之后：

He said, “Jim, when is the next train?”

→He asked Jim when the next train was.

注：(1) 改为宾语从句的间接引语要用陈述句词序。

(2) 若直接引语的引述动词为say，改成间接引语应将其改为ask等：

He said, “Where is the station?”

→He asked where the station was.”

4. 直接引语变间接引语的五点变化

(1) 时态的变化。直接引语变为间接引语时，若主句为过去时态，变为间接引语的宾语从句通常要将时态往后推一个，即：一般现在时变为一般过去时，一般将来时变为过去将来时，现在进行时变为过去进行时，现在完成时变为过去完成时，一般过去时变为过去完成时(若直接引语为过去完成时，变为间接引语时，可以不变)，情态动词 can, may 等分别变为 could, might 等。如：

“It will rain soon,” he said.

→He said that it would rain that night.

“She can speak French,” he said.

→He said that she could speak French.

注：① 若直接引语为客观真理，则变为间接引语时时态不变。如：

The teacher said, “The earth turns around the sun.”

→The teacher said that the earth turns around the sun.

② 有时直接引语有特定的过去时间状语，变为间接引语时时态可不变。如：

He said, “My son was born in 1995.”

→He said that his son was born in 1995.