Question

Daniel said "where have you been ?"
choose the correct indirect reported speech.

Daniel asked me where I had been
Daniel told me where I should have been
Daniel told me where I was.
Daniel said that I had not been there.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Daniel asked me where I had been.

Explanation:

Sentence 1 is the right answer you are looking for.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Concept

The way we present our own or other people's speech is known as reported speech. Direct speech and indirect speech are the two main categories of reported speech.

Explanation

Direct speech

• Direct speech repeats the speaker's exact words or their words as we recall them
• The reporting clause and the reported clause are the two components of a speech report.
• The reported clause contains the original speaker's words and a verb like "say," "tell," "ask," "reply," or "shout," usually in the past simple.
• In direct speech, the reporting clause and the reported clause are typically separated by a comma. Inverted commas are used to separate the original speaker's words, either single ('...') or double ("..."). Comma must be put inside the inverted comma if the reported clause comes first.

Indirect speech

• The reporting clause typically comes first in indirect speech.
• When the reporting clause comes first, there is no need for a comma to separate it from the reported clause. A comma is used to separate the reporting clause from the reported clause when they follow one another.
• In indirect reports of questions and exclamations, no question or exclamation marks are used.
• In most cases, we simply change the subject when we report something that was said in the present simple. But when we talk about the past, we typically shift the tense by going backwards.

In the given statement is a question. So in the indirect speech it is changed to "asked". In a similar way, the present perfect tense is changed to past perfect tense accordingly.

Hence, the option Daniel asked me where I had been is correct.

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