SSC CGL 2023 PYQ — Question 76

SSC CGL Tier II - 3 March 2023 - Shift 1 • English • Q76

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.

Joey said to the girl, “How are you doing?”

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. Joey asked the girl how she was doing.

Given sentence: Joey said to the girl, “How are you doing?”

In indirect speech, we need to remove commas and inverted commas.

The second-person pronouns are changed according to the object pronoun of the reporting verb.

'said to' is changed to asked.

So, the final sentence is:

Joey asked the girl how she was doing.