Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
“Hello”, he said to his friend. “What can I do for you?"
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
He greeted his friend and asked what he could do for him.
The other options are incorrect:
- He said hello and asked his friend what can do for him - This is incorrect because the modal verb "can" in the reported speech is in the present tense, but the reporting verb "said" is in the past tense.
- He asked and greeted his friend that what he can do for him - This is incorrect because the word order in the reported speech is incorrect. The correct word order would be "what he could do for him".
- He told hello and asked his friend what he could do for him - This is incorrect because the verb "told" suggests that the speaker was informing his friend of something, but the original sentence is a question.