Reporting questions
FoundationOnce a question is reported it is no longer being asked — it is being described. The words that mark a question in English are therefore removed, and the clause takes ordinary statement order.
He asked where I lived.
statement order, and a full stop
He asked where did I live?
the question form kept in the report
Where it bites
The 'do' auxiliary. 'Did you go' becomes 'whether I had gone', and 'did' disappears entirely because it was only carrying the tense.