Choose the correct direct speech form of the following sentence.
He asked me whether I had taken the medications.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
To convert the indirect speech back to direct speech, we follow these grammatical rules:
Tense Change: The past perfect ("had taken") in indirect speech typically originates from the simple past ("did take") in direct speech.
Reporting Verb: The word "asked" and the conjunction "whether" indicate that the original sentence was a Yes/No question. Therefore, the direct speech must start with an auxiliary verb like "Did."
Pronoun Shift: The "I" in the indirect speech refers to the person being spoken to ("me"), so it changes back to "you" in direct speech.
Verb Structure: In a "Did" question, the main verb must be in its base form ("take"), not the past tense ("took").
Option (2) implements all these changes.