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Out of the four alternatives choose the one which best expresses the sentence in Indirect Speech:
He said to me, "When will you come back?"

  1. A
    He asked me when you would go back.
  2. B
    He asked to me when i would go back.
  3. C
    He asked me when he would go back.
  4. D
    He asked me when I would go back.

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

To convert this interrogative sentence from direct to indirect speech:
Change the reporting phrase "said to me" to "asked me".

Keep the question word "when" as the conjunction.

Change the question format into an assertive sentence format.

Update the second-person pronoun "you" to match the object of the reporting verb ("me"), changing it to "I".

Shift the tense of the modal verb "will" to its past form, "would".

This results in: He asked me when I would go back. (Option D)

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Out of the four alternatives choose the one which best expresses the sentence in Indirect Speech:
He said to me, "When will you come back?"
A
He asked me when you would go back.
B
He asked to me when i would go back.
C
He asked me when he would go back.
D
He asked me when I would go back.

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