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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

Tania said to her friend, ‘Can you lend me an umbrella ?'

Options:

Tania requested her friend to lend her an umbrella?

Tania asked her friend if she could lend her her an umbrella.

Will you lend me your umbrella Tania asked her friend.

Please give me an umbrella Tania requested her friend.

Correct Answer:

Tania asked her friend if she could lend her her an umbrella.

Explanation:

ans 2

Reporting speech has interrogative sentence without question word, hence ‘if/whether’ will be used as conjunction.