Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Mother said to him, "How did you get the tickets to the show?"
Option 1: Mother asked him how he had gotten the tickets to the show.
Option 2: Mother asked him that how had he got the tickets to the show.
Option 3: Mother asked him how he got the tickets to the show.
Option 4: Mother asked him that how he get the tickets to the show.
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Correct Answer: Mother asked him how he had gotten the tickets to the show.
Solution : The correct choice is the first option .
Indirect speech focuses more on the content of what someone says than their exact words.
In the transition from direct question to indirect speech:
- The reporting verb "said" is changed to "asked".
- "How" will be used as a conjunction because the question word itself becomes the conjunction in the case of the interrogative sentence.
- The simple past tense "did get" is changed to the past perfect tense, "had gotten".
- The second-person pronoun "you" is changed to the third-person pronoun "he".
Therefore, the indirect speech sentence is: "Mother asked him how he had gotten the tickets to the show."
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