Question

Rewrite the sentence in indirect speech:

They asked, ''Who are you and what do you want?''

• A. They asked who he was and what he wanted.
• B. They asked who are you sir and what you want.
• C. The asked who he was and what did he want.
• D. They asked who was he and what he wanted.

Answer 1

The correct option is A They asked who he was and what he wanted.

The correct answer is option A: 'They asked who he was and what he wanted.'

While converting from direct to indirect speech:

1. The simple present tense in the reported speech changes to the simple past tense.

2. The second person in the reported speech changes to the third person.

Applying these two rules in the conversion of the given sentence:

1. 'Who are you' and 'what do you want' change to 'who he was' and 'what he wanted'

2. The second person pronoun 'you' changes to 'he'. Alternatively, we could use 'she' since gender is not specified.

Therefore, the final answer is option A.