Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
"Are you ready?" she asked. She asked ____________ ready.

• A. if I was
• B. When I am
• C. to be
• D. why I was

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

if I was

The given sentence is an interrogative sentence.

According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'are' will change into 'was'. The second person pronoun 'I' will change into the person of the speaker.. In an interrogative sentence, in the indirect speech the helping verb is put after the subject.

Thus, in indirect speech the sentence must be,

She asked if i was ready.

Thus option A is the correct answer.

Options B,C,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.