I'm not talking about reported questions like I/she/he ASKED. Here are some of the examples from my textbook:
Mary: Who did you meet at the party last night?
Mary ASKS who I met at the party last night.
John: Did Mark see you?
John ASKS if Mark saw me.
I'm confused about how I'm supposed to form these sentences if I need to use asks instead of asked. How can I determine which tense do I use? Please no use of asked/wanted/said etc, only asks/wants/says. Thank you.
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Re: Reported questions
Although this use of the historic present (i.e. 'asks' rather than 'asked') is a little unusual and generally confined to literary contexts, your sentences are correct as written.