Choose the option that best expresses the same sentence in indirect speech. I said to him, "Does your sister know French?"
I asked him whether his sister knew French.
The reported sentence is a yes/no question (it begins with the helping verb 'Does'). For such questions, the reporting verb 'said to' becomes 'asked', and the connector 'whether' (or 'if') is used.
Pronoun: 'your sister' (said to him) → 'his sister'.
Tense: reporting verb is in the past, so the simple present 'Does ... know' becomes the simple past 'knew', and the question order changes to statement order.
Result: I asked him whether his sister knew French.
'knows' keeps the wrong tense, and 'told him whether' / 'said to him whether' use a reporting verb that does not suit a question.
Hence, the answer is I asked him whether his sister knew French.
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