Question

"Boys,what are you doing? "said the teacher. (change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

Answer:

The teacher asked the boys what were they doing.

Answer 2

The teacher asked the boys what they were doing- will be the indirect speech form.

Indirect speech-

• The indirect speech or reported speech says or reports what the speaker said in their own words.
• It is not included in the inverted commas as it has the words told by the speaker in someone else's words.
• The above example includes a question asked, hence the teacher asked will be our beginning.
• The subject boys will change to the third person they and so will the verb 'are' transform to 'were'.

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