[Grammar] indirect questions / reported speech

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Could you help me ?I don't know what is correct
Did he steal money ?turn into indirect questions:

I doubted if he stole money .

or
I doubted if he had stolen money .
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and when I must change tenses peaceably from sequence o tenses?
 

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I think both of these sentences can be correct:
I doubted he stole money.
I doubted he had stolen money.

Which one is correct depends on the context, which you have not provided.

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I wondered who did it/had done it (depends on the context).
He wanted to know where you have been/had been (depends on the context).
I doubt she will be on time.
Do you know how long he has been working here?
I want to know if you are moving.

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Could you help me ?I don't know what is correct
Did he steal money ?turn into indirect questions:

I doubted if he stole money .

or
I doubted if he had stolen money .
*************
and when I must change tenses peaceably from sequence o tenses?
"I wondered if he had stolen money".
 

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and what say ? by or with
the glass was cut by/ with a special tool ?
the roast was flavoured with wine . is it good ?
"The glass was cut with a special tool". "The roast was flavoured with wine" is correct.
 

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I will but in bold the words that should begin your passive sentence.
and what is the passive of this sentense . change into the passive voice. could you help me please :)

2 Bad organisation spoiled their holiday .

3 Teachers mark hundreds of exam papers every year .

4 Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

5 You should dry your hair before you go out.

6 You mustn’t tell him the truth . -- This one, in particular, will be extremely unnatural in the passive.

7 She likes people taking her to the theatre . You can do this one, but it will be eve more unnatural than #6.

8 Why didn’t they give her the job? -- This one still starts with why, but Why wasn't.... Can you figure out what comes next?
 

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Re: passive voice

Bad organisation spoiled their holiday .
their holiday was spoiled by bad organisation.

3 Teachers mark hundreds of exam papers every year .
hundreds of exam paper are marked by teachers

4 Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
who had written R a J?

5 You should dry your hair before you go out.
your hair should be dried by you before you go out

6 You mustn’t tell him the truth .
the truth musn't be told him

7 She likes people taking her to the theatre .
I don't know

8 Why didn’t they give her the job?
why job wasn't given her ?

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3 Teachers mark hundreds of exam papers every year .
Hundreds of exam paper are marked by teachers every year.:tick:

4 Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
who had written R a J?:cross:

5 You should dry your hair before you go out.
Your hair should be dried by you before you go out. Delete "by you".

6 You mustn’t tell him the truth .
The truth musn't be told him.:tick:

7 She likes people taking her to the theatre .
I don't know

8 Why didn’t they give her the job?
why job wasn't given her ?:cross:
 

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4 Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
who was written R a J?
is better ?
 

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Romeo and Juliet was...
 

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Could you help me ?I don't know what is correct
Did he steal money ?turn into indirect questions:

I doubted if he stole money .

or
I doubted if he had stolen money .
*************
and when I must change tenses peaceably from sequence o tenses?

The standard construction is 'doubt that...' (not 'if').

As another user has pointed out, both are possible. If your intended reference is to a (possibly) regularly occurring action (contemporaneous with the time of the doubting), then you will say

I doubted that he stole money.
(i.e. ever, at any time)

If, on the other hand, it is to a prior possible event, then you will say

I doubted that he had stolen money.
(i.e. at the particular past time in question)

Note, however, that informal usage (esp. AmE) will often accept the first sentence as having the meaning of the second, provided that context serves to specify the chronology of the events.
 
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