He said to me, "Where have you lost the
pen I brought for you yesterday?"
A. He asked me where I had lost the pen
he brought for me the previous day.
B. He asked me where I had lost the pen
he had brought for me the day before.
C. He asked me where I had lost the pen
he had brought for me the next day.
D. He asked me where I had lost the pen
he had brought for me the previous day.
Answers
Answer:
d is the correct answer
SOLUTION
The given sentence is in interrogative form. To convert such sentences into direct narration, the below rules are followed:
Say/Said is changed to ask/asked/wonder/wondered/enquire of/enquired of.
Inverted commas (" ") are removed.
If the reported speech is in YES/NO question form then if/whether is used before reported speech.
If the reported speech is in the form of WH-Question (who/what/why/how/where/when/which etc), no conjunction is used before the question word. The question word itself works as a conjunction.
Reported verb is made assertive; i.e. it is kept in the order of subject + verb.
The sign of interrogation (?) is removed and full stop is used.
The words like, this, these, tomorrow, yesterday change to that, those, the next day, the previous day respectively.
If the reporting verb is in past tense, we make changes to the reported verb as per the below rule:
Simple present tense changes to simple past tense.
Present continuous tense changes to past continuous tense.
Present perfect tense changes to past perfect tense.
Present Perfect continuous tense changes to past perfect continuous tense.
Simple past tense changes to past perfect tense.
Past continuous tense changes to past perfect continuous tense.
No changes are made to past perfect and past perfect continuous tense.
Below are the rules for changing the pronouns correctly:
First person pronoun changes according to the subject of reporting speech.
Second person pronoun changes according to the object of reporting speech.
Third person pronoun does not change in indirect speech.
Since, the reported verb is in question form, so "said to" will change to "asked".The question word "where" will work as conjunction in the indirect speech. The tense of reported verb is present perfect so, it will change to past perfect in indirect sentence.
Hence, option B is the correct answer.