Question

Choose the most appropriate option for the indirect speech conversion of the following statement.
'What do you want?' she asked him.

• A. She ask him what did he wanted
• B. She asked him what do you want.
• C. She asked him if he wanted anything.
• D. She asked him what he wanted.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

She asked him what he wanted.
There are some rules to change direct to indirect speech of interrogative sentences. First, we remove the quotation marks. If the sentence begins with a 'wh' question-word then no conjunction is used as the question-word itself acts as the joining clause. The question mark is changed to a full stop and the simple present tense is changed into the simple past tense. If the sentence is expressing a positive feeling then do/does is removed from the sentence. Keeping in accordance with these rules, option D is the correct answer.

Options A, B and C are incorrect because they do not adhere to these rules.