Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
He said to me, "Do you own this beautiful car?"
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct option is: He asked me if I owned that beautiful car.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- He asked to me if you own that beautiful car. - This sentence does not add the word "if" before the indirect speech question.
- He asked me did I owned that beautiful car. - This sentence does not change the auxiliary verb "did" to the past tense.
- He asked me that if you owned this beautiful car. - This sentence does not change the demonstrative pronoun "this" to "that".