Question

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The teacher asked the boy, “ How is your health? (change into reported speech)​

Answer 1

The following sentence is direct speech. After converting it to indirect speech, it becomes- "The teacher asked the boy how his health was."

• The quotations are removed after turning the sentence into indirect speech.
• The verb in reported speech is turned to past form as the tense of the sentence is 'past'.
• The pronoun 'your' sits as 'his' as it is indicating the boy's health.
• Another example - "She asked me if I would go to school the next day."

Answer 2

The boy was asked by the teacher how his health was.

Explanation:

"The boy was asked by the teacher how was his health" is the reported/ indirect speech of the given sentence.

• There are two types of speeches direct and indirect.
• Indirect speech is the form of speech where the sentence conveys the message as if reporting/narrating to a third person.
• They do not use the exact words as in direct speech but convey the exact same meaning.
• The sentence 'The teacher asked the boy, “ How is your health"?' is in present tense hence the indirect speech will  be in the past tense.
• The indirect speech of the given sentence  "how is your health?" is reported in past tense.