Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

 

Adity asked me, "How is your mother?"

Options:

Adity asked me how was my mother.

Adity asked her how my mother is.

Adity asked how mother was.

Adity asked me how my mother was.

Correct Answer:

Adity asked me how my mother was.

Explanation:

The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:

Adity asked me how my mother was.

The other options are incorrect for the following reasons:

  • Adity asked me how was my mother. The verb "was" should be in the present tense, "is".
  • Adity asked her how my mother is. The pronoun "her" should be "me", since the question was asked to "me".
  • Adity asked how mother was. The article "my" is missing before "mother".