Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
"Whom did you see at the shopping mall today?” I asked my daughter.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. I asked my daughter whom she had seen at the shopping mall that day.
- The given sentence is in an interrogative form.
- While converting, the interrogative sentence is changed into its assertive form, hence removing the question tag.
- Since the given sentence is in the simple past tense, it will be changed into past perfect tense changing did see into had seen.
- The second person you will be changed to third person 'she'.
- No conjunction will be used because the question belongs to WH-family.
- Today will be changed to that day.
Hence the required direct speech is-
I asked my daughter whom she had seen at the shopping mall that day