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

Henry playfully asked the kids, "How can you split this paper further into pieces?"

Option 1: Henry playfully asked the kids how they could have split that further into pieces.

Option 2: Henry playfully asked the kids how they could split that paper further into pieces.

Option 3: Henry playfully asked the kids how could they split that further into pieces.

Option 4: Henry playfully asked the kids that how they could split that further into pieces.


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Correct Answer: Henry playfully asked the kids how they could split that paper further into pieces.


Solution : The second option is correct.

A reported question is when a person tells what the other person asked.

Narration Conversion:

  • You is charged to they, as it is the correct third-person plural pronoun to be used in reported speech.
  • Can is changed to could, as the past tense is used in reported speech.
  • This is changed to that to correctly refer to the paper being talked about in the reported speech.
  • The question word (in this case, how) is used to report cases of questions with question words.
  • The words of the speaker are enclosed in the inverted commas.

Therefore, the sentence in the reported speech is: Henry playfully asked the kids how they could split that paper further into pieces.

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