Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Mahesh said to Priya, “How will you pay off your debts?”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. Mahesh asked Priya how she would pay off her debts.
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.
- The reporting verb, 'said to' will be changed into 'asked' because the given sentence is an example of an interrogative sentence with a question word.
- In the reporting speech, the verb 'will' will be changed to 'would' when converting into indirect speech.
- 'How' will be used as a conjunction because we know that in an interrogative sentence with a question word the question word itself becomes the conjunction.
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'You' will be changed into 'She' and 'Your' will be changed into 'Her'.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: Mahesh asked Priya how she would pay off her debts.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. Mahesh asked Priya how she would pay off her debts.