Question

Choose the indirect speech for the following:
He asked, “Where have you been?”}

• A. He asked me where I had been.
• B. He asked me if I had been.
• C. He asked me that I had been.
• D. He asked me when I had been.

Hint:

For WH-questions, keep the same question word and remove the question format.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Concept: In indirect speech for {wh-questions}, the question word is retained and sentence becomes a statement.
Step 1: Keep question word.
\[ {Where} \rightarrow {where} \]
Step 2: Change pronoun and tense.
\[ {you} \rightarrow {I}, \quad {have been} \rightarrow {had been} \]
Step 3: Form sentence.
\[ {He asked me where I had been. \]
Step 4: Evaluate options.

• (A) \checkmark correct
• (B) $\times$ “if” used for yes/no questions
• (C) $\times$ incorrect structure
• (D) $\times$ wrong question word

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).