Directions: In the following sentence, three substitutions are given for each italicised part. If one of them is better than the italicised part, that should be your answer. If none of the substitution improves the sentence, the answer should be (4).
The teacher asked me what is your name.
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what your name is
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what was my name
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what my name was
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No improvement
C
Correct answer
Explanation
This is a reported speech (indirect question) scenario. In reported speech, the question word order changes to statement word order, and the tense shifts back. The original direct question 'What is your name?' becomes 'what my name was' in reported speech. The word order changes from 'is your' to 'my was' and the tense shifts from present to past.