Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech. Shilpa asked, “How are you doing today?”
Shilpa asked me how I was doing that day.
Reporting a wh- question requires keeping the question word, restoring statement word order, and dropping the question mark.
The changes here:
Word order — ‘how are you doing’ becomes ‘how I was doing’, subject before verb.
Tense — the reporting verb asked is past, so the present continuous are doing backshifts to was doing.
Pronoun — you becomes I, since Shilpa addressed the person now reporting.
Time word — today becomes that day.
That gives ‘Shilpa asked me how I was doing that day.’
Checking the others:
‘I was asked by Shilpa how I am doing that day.’ — the time word shifted but the verb did not, so the backshift is incomplete.
‘Shilpa asked me how I am doing today.’ — neither the tense nor the time word was changed.
‘I was asked by Shilpa how I was doing the other day.’ — tense correct, but the other day means a different, earlier day, which changes the meaning. That day is the right shift for today.
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