“What are you doing?” teacher asked Rahul. The given sentence is in D
A. Teacher asked Rahul what he is doing.
B. Teacher asked Rahul what he had been doing.
C. Teacher asked Rahul what was he doing.
D. Teacher asked Rahul what he was doing.
Right Answer is: D
SOLUTION
The given sentence is in Direct Speech.
The given sentence is in Direct Speech because it quotes actual words. Therefore, it must be changed into Indirect Speech.
We notice that the reporting verb is in the Past tense (‘said’). Hence, a change will be made in the tense of the reported speech.
Also, the first person of the reported speech is changed according to the subject of reporting speech.
In the given question, the pronoun ‘you’ is changed to ‘he’ and ‘are’ is changed to ‘was’.
Therefore, the sentence in Indirect Speech will be option D i.e. Teacher asked Rahul what he was doing.