WBCS.LIVE practice question

Choose the correct option to frame a question from the following sentence, using the appropriate punctuation - I asked him why he wasn't in class.

Solve this multiple-choice question and check the correct answer with its explanation below.

Answer options

  1. I asked him- "Why you not in class?"
  2. I asked him, "Why you are not in class?'
  3. I asked him: 'Why you are not in class?'
  4. I asked him, "Why are you not in class?"

Correct answer and explanation

Correct answer: I asked him, "Why are you not in class?"

Explanation: When converting indirect speech to direct speech, the tense and word order must be correct, and the punctuation should follow proper quotation rules. I asked him- "Why you not in class?" ❌: wrong punctuation and missing auxiliary verb. I asked him, "Why you are not in class?" ❌: incorrect word order; sounds unnatural. I asked him: 'Why you are not in class?' ❌: wrong punctuation and word order. I asked him, "Why are you not in class?" ✅: correct word order (question form), correct punctuation.