English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

English Grammar
English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: No one knows where is he hiding.


Options:

  1. where is he hide
  2. where he is hiding at
  3. where he is hiding
  4. where he has hidden is

Right Answer: where he is hiding

When a question is embedded inside a larger statement, it becomes an indirect or reported question and the normal statement word order must be restored. This means the subject comes before the verb and the interrogative inversion disappears, so 'where is he hiding' must become 'where he is hiding'. Option one wrongly keeps the inversion and also uses the base form 'hide' after 'is'. Option two adds the unnecessary preposition 'at' at the end, which is redundant after 'where'. Option four produces a confused structure with two verbs. Hence option three is the correct choice.

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