Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech. I inquired if his name was Adwij.
I said, “Is your name Adwij?”
Working backwards. Turning an indirect question into direct speech reverses every change made when it was reported.
1. Reporting verb. Inquired is past, so in direct speech it becomes said — also past. The tense of the reporting verb never changes.
2. Conjunction and punctuation. If is dropped, the words go inside quotation marks, and a question mark is restored.
3. Word order. The reported clause used statement order (‘his name was’). A direct question restores question order: ‘Is your name…’
4. Tense and pronoun. The backshifted was reverts to is, and his becomes your, since the question is addressed to the person concerned.
That gives ‘I said, “Is your name Adwij?”’
Checking the others:
‘I say, “Was your name Adwij?”’ — reporting verb in the present, and was left backshifted.
‘I say, “Is your name Adwij?”’ — the quoted question is right, but the reporting verb is wrongly in the present.
‘I said, “Are you Adwij?”’ — rewords the question to ask about identity rather than about the name, changing what was actually reported.
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