Yes/no questionA question without a question word; one to which the answer is "yes" or "no". E.g.: Are you old enough to enter?s

reporting clause + if/whether-clause (with no inversion)

When reporting a yes/no question, if or whether is used, with no inversion. This means that the word order of the reported clause is the same as in statements:

David (to Tom): Have you seen The Two Towers?
David asked Tom if/whether he had seen The Two Towers.

Wh-questionA question that starts with a question word. E.g.: What are you doing? How old are you? s

reporting clause + wh-clause (with no inversion) 

When reporting a wh-question, the original question wordA word that introduces a wh-question. E.g.: What are you doing? (who, what, when, where, how etc.) is repeated in the reported clause, again with no inversion:

Katie: Where do you live?
Katie asked me where I lived.

The same structureThe way in which the parts of a sentence, clause or expression are arranged. E.g.: make somebody + infinitive in "The teacher made me rewrite the composition." can be used to report exclamations:

John: How funny!
John exclaimed how funny it was.

Examples of reporting verbA part of speech that expresses an action or a state. E.g.: John seldom plays tennis.s used with the structures above:

Reporting statements
Reporting structures Reporting imperatives