English Grammar - Narration

English Grammar
English Grammar - Narration

A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech: He asked me, "Have you done your homework?"


Options:

  1. He asked me if I had done my homework.
  2. He asked me have I done my homework.
  3. He asked me whether I have done my homework.
  4. He asked me whether had I done my homework.

Right Answer: He asked me if I had done my homework.

When a yes-no question is reported, three changes are needed. The reporting conjunction 'if' or 'whether' must be used, the interrogative word order must revert to the normal subject-verb order, and the tense must be back-shifted because the reporting verb 'asked' is in the past. The present perfect 'have you done' therefore becomes the past perfect 'had done', and the pronoun 'your' becomes 'my'. Option one applies all three rules correctly. Option two keeps the question order, option three fails to back-shift the tense, and option four retains inversion after 'whether'. Hence option one is correct.

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