Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
He said to the mechanic, “Will you have the car ready by tomorrow morning?”
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. He asked the mechanic if he would have the car ready by the next morning.
The sentence is an Interrogative sentence. It is in Direct Speech.
The rules to change this sentence are:
Say/Said is changed to asked as per the sense of the sentence.
As the reported speech is in YES/NO question form, if/whether is used before the reported speech.
Reported verb is made assertive; i.e. it is kept in the order of subject + verb.
Will have" will be changed to "would have".
"Tomorrow morning" will be changed to "next morning".
The correct sentence will be: He asked the mechanic if he would have the car ready by the next morning.