After talking about reported commans and statements, let's focus on reporting questions.
Bear in mind that, when we're reporting someone's else's words a short time after they were said (up-to-date reporting), the reporting verb's in the present and there's no tense change, but when we're reporting something some time after it was said (out-of-date reporting), the reporting verb's in the past and there's tense change (present becomes past, past becomes past perfect, and so on):
