Question

billy asked, "where are my shoes"?
change to indirect speech ​

Answer 1

Billy asked if where was my shoes?

Answer 2

Billy asked where his shoes were. -This is the answer.

About indirect speech:

• The sentence that is given in direct speech must be changed into indirect speech.
• When a sentence is changed into indirect speech, the comma and quotation marks must be removed.
• The entire sentence is converted into past tense. That is the verbs take the past tense form. So 'are' becomes 'were'.
• The person within the quotation marks must be changed in reported form accordingly. So 'my' becomes 'his'- Billy the speaker.
• The given sentence is interrogative. The verb precedes the noun in it.
• As we are changing question form to indirect form of speech, the noun will precede the verb. So 'are my shoes' changes to 'his shoes were'.
• Therefore the answer is: Billy asked where his shoes were.