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Choose the correct direct speech for the following sentence. He asked me if I had done my practical.
Question

Choose the correct direct speech for the following sentence.
He asked me if I had done my practical.

A.

He said, "Had I done your practical?"

B.

He said, "Have you done your practical?"

C.

He said, "Did you do their practical?"

D.

He said, "Did I do his practical?"

Correct option is B

The correct direct speech is (b) He said, "Have you done your practical?"
Explain the rules of conversion in detail.
· Yes/No question (Indirect → Direct): Remove if/whether, restore the auxiliary before the subject (question order), and place the clause inside quotes with a question mark.
· Backshift reversal: In indirect speech, present perfect (have done) is backshifted to past perfect (had done). When converting back to direct, we restore the original tense: had done → have done.
· Pronoun changes: me → you, my → your, as the listener in indirect (“me”) becomes the addressee in direct (“you”).
· Reporting verb: asked me in indirect may appear as said (to me)/ asked me in direct. Option (b) is acceptable; “said to me” is often used but not mandatory for correctness.
· Why others are wrong:
· (a) Wrong pronouns ( I/your) and wrong tense/order ( Had I done…?).
· (c) Wrong tense ( Did you do…? instead of Have you done…?), and their is incorrect.
· (d) Pronouns and sense are wrong ( I/his), changing the speaker and ownership.

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