Question

Choose the correct Reported Speech option-
Shruti to Shreya, "Where is the book"?
A. Shruti asked Shreya where is the book.
B. Shruti asked Shreya where the book was.
C. Shruti asked Shreya where was the book.

Shreya to Shruti, "Have you read this book?
A.Shreya asked Shruti if she had read this book.
B. Shreya asked Shruti have you read this book.
C.Shreya asked Shruti if she had read that book.

Answer 1

Answer for the first one will be
B) Shruti asked Shreya where the book was.
The answer for the second will be -
C) Shreya asked Shruti if she has read that book

Answer 2

B. Shruti asked Shreya where the book was. and C.Shreya asked Shruti if she had read that book. are the correct answers.

Why is it so?

• A speaker's words are detailed in subordinate statements represented by a revealing action word, with the necessary changes of individual and tense.
• Reported speech tenses will transform from that of the direct speech as a rule.
• This is known as backshifting in detailed discourse, with the fundamental decision that the tense is moved back to its past tense structure.

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