Question

Rewrite the following sentence in indirect speech.

Teacher said to Ravi, "What is your name?
"Teacher asked Ravi____.

• A. What is his name
• B. What his name is
• C. What his name was
• D. What was his name

Answer 1

The correct option is C What his name was

Indirect Speech is used to report something in our own words.

The given example is an example of Interrogative Questions. Indirect speech is formed by using 'ask' + question word + clause.

The clause will have the question, in normal word order and with the necessary tense change. In this case, the simple present tense is given in clause. It would be changed to simple past tense.

Indirect speech would be - Teacher asked Ravi what his name was.

Thus, option C is the correct answer according to the rules.