jo flourished her broom as she called out .. 'How do you do? Are you sick?" change in indirect speech
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Answer:
Jo, flourishing her broom, asked (him) how he's doing and enquired whether he was sick.
Explanation:
When changing speeches from direct speech to indirect speech, the tense of the verb will be changed from present to past tense. And the pronouns are also changed accordingly. So, in the above sentence, "How do you do" will be changed to "How he's doing" and the second question "Are you sick?" will be changed into "whether he was sick". The pronoun "you" changes to "he". Also, since it is "yes or no question", we can use "whether" or "if" in the indirect speech.
Answer:
Jo flourished her broom as she asked how she was doing and whether she was sick.
Explanation:
The explanation here is that Jo is master asking her about the health. So, she asked whether she was sick so she might have said ok and sometimes said no. The indirect speech is a reported speech. The above sentence is a reported speech. The direct speech is converted into our own speech. Here Jo ask somebody a female character about her health and well doing in direct. But we made the answer to be in our own word as Jo asked how she was doing and sick.