Question

Change the following from direct to reported speech.
Jane asked her sister, “Did you go to the market this morning?”
a- Jane asked her sister did you go to the market this morning.
b- Jane asked her sister did she go to the market this morning.
c- Jane asked her sister did she went to the market this morning.
d- Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning.

Answer 1

Hint: There are two types of reported speech- Direct and Indirect speech. Direct speech expresses the original words spoken by the speaker, whereas Indirect speech expresses the words spoken by a speaker in the past.

Complete answer:
 As given in the hint, we put direct speech in quotation marks to state the exact words or quotes of a speaker.
Let’s look at the rules that we need to follow while changing a sentence from direct to indirect speech-
1) We remove the quotation marks in indirect speech.
2) The tense of the verb usually changes in the past tense.
3) We also remove the question marks in indirect speech.
In the given question- We can conclude that Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning.
Here, we have used ‘if’ to replace the verb ‘did’ because we needed to remove the question tags and used the second form of the verb.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘Jane asked her sister did you go to the market this morning’ is an incorrect option because there is no change in the given statement.
Option b- ‘Jane asked her sister did she go to the market this morning’ is an incorrect option because there is no change in the tense of the given sentence.
Option c- ‘Jane asked her sister did she went to the market this morning’ is an incorrect option because the use of ‘did’ with the past tense form of the verb ‘go’ is inappropriate.
Option d- ‘Jane asked her sister if she went to the market that morning’ is the correct option because we can see the changes as per the criteria and rules. The correct answer is Option ‘d’.

Note:
 Keep in mind, the pronouns also change depending upon their use in the sentence. For example- (1) Mother said, “I am cooking.” (2) Mother said that she was cooking.