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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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indirect speech
Martha asked, "How many chocolates have you eaten?"
If the above sentence had to be converted to indirect speech, then which of the following sentences would be the correct answer?
a)Martha asked how many chocolates I had eaten.
b)Martha asked how many chocolates had I eaten.
If the above sentence had to be converted to indirect speech, then which of the following sentences would be the correct answer?
a)Martha asked how many chocolates I had eaten.
b)Martha asked how many chocolates had I eaten.
Top answer
a) Martha asked how many chocolates I had eaten. Indirect speech is placed in statement word order, not question word order.
- a) Martha asked how many chocolates I had eaten.
- Indirect speech is placed in statement word order, not question word order.
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a) Martha asked how many chocolates I had eaten.
Indirect speech is placed in statement word order, not question word order.
Indirect speech is placed in statement word order, not question word order.
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