Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The mother said to her son, "Why are you not doing your homework?"
Option 1: The mother asked her son why was he not doing his homework.
Option 2: The mother asked her son why he was not doing his homework.
Option 3: The mother asked her son why he did not do his homework.
Option 4: The mother asked her son why he is not doing his homework.
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Correct Answer: The mother asked her son why he was not doing his homework.
Solution : The second option is the correct choice.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb "said" is changed to "asked".
- "Why" 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.
- "You" (a second-person pronoun) is changed to "he" (a third-person pronoun).
- The present continuous tense is changed to the past continuous tense.
Therefore, the correct answer is: "The mother asked her son why he was not doing his homework."
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