Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
He asked me, "Have you ever visited the Taj Mahal?"

Correct option is D

The correct option is (d).

The given sentence is an interrogative (question) in direct speech: “Have you ever visited the Taj Mahal?” When converting such questions into indirect speech, we follow these key rules:

• Reporting verb: “asked” remains appropriate for questions.
• Connector: Use if or whether for yes/no questions.
• Word order: Change question order to statement order (subject comes before verb).
• Tense backshift: If the reporting verb is in the past (“asked”), the present perfect (“have visited”) generally changes to past perfect (“had visited”).

Therefore, “Have you ever visited...” becomes “whether/if I had ever visited...”. Option (d) correctly uses whether and the correct tense had ever visited with proper statement order.

Why other options are incorrect:

• (A) uses “if” correctly, but the tense remains “have ever visited,” which is not the standard backshift after a past reporting verb.
• (B) has the same tense issue as (A).
• (C) uses incorrect structure “had I ever visited” (question-like inversion) instead of statement order “I had ever visited.”