English Grammar - Narration

English Grammar
English Grammar - Narration

Select the option which expresses the given sentence in indirect speech : 'Do you know when she will go home ?' I said to him.


Options:

  1. I asked him if she knew when he would go home.
  2. I asked him if he knew when she would go home.
  3. I asked him did he know when she will go home.
  4. I asked him if had known when she would go home.

Right Answer: I asked him if he knew when she would go home.

The reported sentence is a yes-no question, so the reporting verb becomes ‘asked’ and the question is introduced by ‘if’ or ‘whether’, with the interrogative word order changed to statement order. Because the reporting verb ‘said’ is in the past, the tenses shift back: ‘do you know’ becomes ‘he knew’ and ‘she will go’ becomes ‘she would go’. The pronouns must also be adjusted to the reporter’s point of view, so ‘you’ becomes ‘he’ while ‘she’ remains unchanged. The correct form is therefore ‘I asked him if he knew when she would go home.’

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