Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

 

"Are you going to play chess us?" he asked.

Options:

He asked me if I was going to play chess them.

He asked whether he was going to play chess them.

He inquired whether I am going to eat or not.

She asked me if he was going to play chess them.

Correct Answer:

He asked whether he was going to play chess them.

Explanation:

Answer: (b)     

Hint: Reporting speech has interrogative sentence without question word, hence ‘if/whether’ is used as conjunction. Reported speech is in past tense hence reporting speech tense-present continuous changed into past continuous.