Multiple choice

Directions: Convert the given statement into indirect speech.

Sourabh asked, “What is the matter?”

  1. Sourabh asked what is the matter.

  2. Sourabh asked what the matter was.

  3. Sourabh asked what the matter is.

  4. Sourabh asked what matter was that.

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The interrogative sentence converts into declarative in indirect speech. Thus, the helping verb follows the subject in declarative. The reporting verb is in simple past where the sentence is in simple present. So, the sentence changes into simple past tense.