Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.

The manager said to the employee, "Why were you absent yesterday?"

Option 1: The manager asked the employee why he had been absent the previous day.

Option 2: The manager told the employee why he had been absent the previous day.

Option 3: The manager asked the employee why had been he absent the previous day.

Option 4: The manager enquired the employee for his absence the previous day.

Question : Select the correct indirect narration of the given sentence.

"How are you feeling today, Rahul?" asked the doctor.

Option 1: The doctor asked Rahul how he is feeling today.

Option 2: The doctor asked Rahul how he was feeling that day.

Option 3: The doctor asked Rahul about how he is feeling that day.

Option 4: The doctor asked Rahul how he is feeling this day.

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
John said, "I cannot come with you."

Option 1: John says that he cannot come with me.

Option 2: John said that he will not be coming with me.

Option 3: John said that he would not come with me.

Option 4: John said that he could not come with me.

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
She asked Aditi, "Where did you have lunch yesterday?"

Option 1: She asked Aditi whether she was having lunch yesterday.

Option 2: She asked Aditi where she was having lunch the previous day.

Option 3: She asked Aditi if she had lunch yesterday.

Option 4: She asked Aditi where she had lunch the previous day.

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.

Ron said to me, "He had eaten his lunch at 2 p.m. yesterday."

Option 1: Ron told me that he ate his lunch at 2 p.m. the previous day.

Option 2: Ron told me that he had had his lunch at 2 p.m. the previous day.

Option 3: Ron told me that he had his lunch at 2 p.m. the previous day.

Option 4: Ron told me that he had eaten his lunch at 2 p.m. the previous day.