Question

"why did you go there?"said he. Narration change

Answer 1

Narration Change

• "why did you go there?"said he.

Answer:

• He asked why I had gone there.

Explanation:

• The direct speech is: "why did you go there?" ,said he. And after narration change the indirect speech is 'He asked why I had gone there.
• Here the reported speech is written in Simple Past Tense and reported speech is also written in the form of Interrogative sentence.
• If reported speech is written in past form then it will be changed in past perfect tense. Reported speech is always kept in inverted coma ("..."). And if reported speech starts with wh word then it will not be changed it will remain as it is. For Interrogative sentence reporting verb 'said' turns into 'asked' when it is changed into indirect speech.

Answer 2

Answer:

He asked me why I had gone there.

Explanation:

It was an interrogative case. The reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.The correct answer is as given below: