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Change the following statement in reported speech:
The teacher said to Ramesh, "Will you do my work now?"
The teacher asked Ramesh ________

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Solution

In the given sentence, while converting it into indirect speech, we must change the pronouns 'you' to 'he' and 'my' to 'his/her', 'will' to 'would' and 'now' to 'then'. Hence the correct answer is as given below.
The teacher asked Ramesh if he would do his/her work then.

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