Complete the report with the full wh-clause. Direct during last winter's storm: "Why is the skylight leaking?" The storm ended long ago and the roof has been repaired; recounting that day, the caretaker's colleague reports that the caretaker asked ___.
Richtige Antwort
why the skylight was leaking
Erklärung
Why the skylight was leaking places the subject before the past continuous verb phrase and locates the leak in the ongoing storm. Why was the skylight leaking would wrongly preserve the inversion of the direct question.