Multiple choice

Directions: Change the narration.

Kiran said to him, ''Why don't you go today?''

  1. Kiran told to him that why he don't go today.

  2. Kiran asked him if he was going that day?

  3. Kiran asked him why he did not go today?

  4. Kiran asked him why he did not go that day.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

In interrogative sentences like this, 'said to' becomes 'asked' or 'enquired'. If the reporting verb is in the past tense and the reported verb is in the present, reported speech (while change of narration) converts into the past. Moreover, indirect speech never takes question mark. Hence, option 4.

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