Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
My neighbour said to me, “Hello! How are you?”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. My neighbour greeted me and asked how I was.
The given sentence is in direct speech, to convert this sentence into indirect speech we need to follow the following points:
- Inverted commas will get omitted.
- In the given sentence rules of both 'Optative and Interrogative' will apply.
- The sentence that has the notion of 'wish, pray, curse, bless, etc. are called Optative Sentences. Here, in the given sentence 'said to' will be changed into 'greeted".
- Further, 'asked' will be added, the given sentence is an example of an interrogative sentence.
- 'And' conjunction will be added to make a meaningful sentence.
- In the reporting speech, the verb 'are' will be changed to 'was' when converting into indirect speech.
- 'You' will be changed into 'I'.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: My neighbour greeted me and asked how I was.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. My neighbour greeted me and asked how I was.