Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
"Why have you come so early today?" The coach asked the athlete.
Option 1: The coach asked the athlete why he came so early that day.
Option 2: The coach asked the athlete why he had come so early that day.
Option 3: The coach asked the athlete why had he come so early that day.
Option 4: The coach asked the athlete why did he come so early today.
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Correct Answer: The coach asked the athlete why he had come so early that day.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option .
In the conversion to indirect speech, we follow the steps as follows:
- The reporting verb "asked" is used in indirect speech.
- This is appropriate for reporting questions. The direct question, "Why have you come so early today?" is transformed into an indirect question.
- In this transformation, the present perfect tense "have come" becomes the past perfect tense "had come" to maintain the correct sequence of tenses.
- The time reference "today" is changed to "that day" in the reported speech.
Therefore, the correct answer is: The coach asked the athlete why he had come so early that day.
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