Phrase · 📋 Summarising & reporting
Ele me perguntou se eu já tinha terminado.
He asked me if I had already finished.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- perguntou → se: indirect question
- tinha → terminado: pluperfect
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Reported question: “Você já terminou?” → perguntou se eu já tinha terminado. Sequence of tenses & reported speech II →