Question : Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
Anju said to me, “What are you doing next weekend?”
Option 1: Anju asked me what I had done the following weekend.
Option 2: Anju asked me what I am doing the coming weekend.
Option 3: Anju asked me what are you doing next weekend.
Option 4: Anju asked me what I was doing the following weekend.
Correct Answer: Anju asked me what I was doing the following weekend.
Solution : The fourth option is the correct choice.
Narration Conversion:
- While reporting an interrogative sentence, said is changed to asked in the reported speech.
- The second-person pronoun ( you) is changed to the first-person pronoun ( I) in the reported speech.
- The auxiliary verb are is in the present tense, which is changed to was , as reporting verb is in the past tense.
- The interrogative sentence is changed to the assertive sentence using the question word what .
- The phrase next weekend in the direct speech is changed to following weekend in the reported speech to accurately convey the time frame.
Therefore, the correct sentence is: Anju asked me what I was doing the following weekend.
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