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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.


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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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