Question

The old lady said t riya what are you doing now

Answer 1

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The old lady asked Riya what she was doing then.

Explanation ↴

There are some major rules that we should keep in mind when converting questions in direct speech into indirect speech. In indirect speech, questions starting with who, whose, whom, when, how, where and what the wh-word would be the subject or the object of the reported clause and the verb 'said' is replaced by words such as 'asked' or 'inquired'. We do not use a conjunction to introduce the reported speech if the question begins with a wh-word.

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