Change the following sentence from Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.
My friend said to me, “Which play have you seen recently?”

Correct option is C

The correct indirect speech is (c) My friend asked me which play I had seen recently.
Detailed Explanation (English):
• The sentence is interrogative (a question), so “said to” changes to “asked”.
• In indirect questions, we do not use question word order (no inversion).
Correct pattern: wh-word + subject + verb
So: “which play I had seen …” (not “which play had I seen …”).
• The tense backshifts because the reporting verb is past:
Present Perfect (“have seen”) → Past Perfect (“had seen”).
• Quotation marks are removed in indirect speech.
Grammatical Rule Used (English):
• Reporting verb for questions: said to → asked
• Indirect question order: wh-word + subject + verb (no inversion)
• Tense backshift: Present Perfect → Past Perfect (when reporting verb is past)
Grammatical Rule Used (Hindi):
• प्रश्नवाचक वाक्य में “said to” बदलकर asked होता है।
• Indirect question में प्रश्नवाचक क्रम (inversion) नहीं आता; संरचना होती है: wh-word + subject + verb।
• Reporting verb भूतकाल में होने पर tense backshift होता है:
have seen → had seen।
Example:
Direct: He said to me, “What have you done?”
Indirect: He asked me what I had done.
Why other options are incorrect:
• (a) “that” के साथ “which” लगाने से sentence heavy/unnatural हो जाता है; exam pattern में (c) preferred.
• (b) Inversion गलत है: “had I seen” indirect में नहीं आता।
• (d) Tense backshift नहीं हुआ (saw instead of had seen).