Question

Choose the correct indirect speech form of the given statement.
The stranger said to Alice, "Where do you live?"

• A. The stranger asked Alice where did she live
• B. The stranger asked Alice where you lived
• C. The stranger asked Alice where she had lived
• D. The stranger asked Alice where she lived

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

The stranger asked Alice where she lived

Option D is the correct answer because the sentence is correctly changed into the simple past tense from being in the simple present tense and the pronoun 'you' is converted to 'she'.

Option A is incorrect because the clause 'where did she live' makes the sentence sound more like a question and incomplete. Hence this does not qualify for the right conversion of the direct speech.

Option B is incorrect because the pronoun 'you' has not been changed.

Option C is incorrect as well because the sentence is the past perfect tense and not in the simple past tense.