Change the following from direct to reported speech:
Jane asked her sister, "Did you go to the market this morning?"
Change the following from direct to reported speech:
Jane asked her sister, "Did you go to the market this morning?"
The correct option is D Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning.
The two ways of relating what a person has said are 1)direct and 2)indirect (reported speech).In direct speech, the original speaker's exact words are repeated. Direct speech is found in plays and quotations. In indirect/reported speech, the exact meaning is expressed but not necessarily using the original speaker's exact words. Pronouns and possessive adjectives usually change from first or second person to the third person except when the speaker is reporting his own words. Sometimes a noun can be inserted to avoid doubt.
When we turn direct questions into direct speech, the following changes are necessary: Tenses, pronouns, and possessive adjectives, and adverbs of time and place change as in the statements. The interrogative form of the verb changes to the affirmative form. The question mark (?) is therefore omitted in indirect questions.
If there is no question word (why, how etc.) if or whether must be used.
Option D is correct as the above mentioned rules are followed, the question is given in the simple past tense (if + subject + second form of the verb), you is changed to she, and this to that
The other options are wrong as 'did', 'this', 'you' cannot be used in the reported speech
The correct answer is D)Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning.
The two ways of relating what a person has said are 1)direct and 2)indirect (reported speech).In direct speech, the original speaker's exact words are repeated. Direct speech is found in plays and quotations. In indirect/reported speech, the exact meaning is expressed but not necessarily using the original speaker's exact words. Pronouns and possessive adjectives usually change from first or second person to the third person except when the speaker is reporting his own words. Sometimes a noun can be inserted to avoid doubt.
When we turn direct questions into direct speech, the following changes are necessary: Tenses, pronouns, and possessive adjectives, and adverbs of time and place change as in the statements. The interrogative form of the verb changes to the affirmative form. The question mark (?) is therefore omitted in indirect questions.
If there is no question word (why, how etc.) if or whether must be used.
Option D is correct as the above mentioned rules are followed, the question is given in the simple past tense (if + subject + second form of the verb), you is changed to she, and this to that
The other options are wrong as 'did', 'this', 'you' cannot be used in the reported speech
The correct answer is D)Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning.
