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    Question

    Select the option that expresses the given sentence in

    reported speech. The villager said to the little boy, “How are you doing?”
    A The villager asked the little boy if he was doing fine. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B The villager asked the little boy how was he doing. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C The villager asked the little boy that how was she doing. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D The villager asked the little boy how he was doing. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    In reported speech, interrogative sentences are converted into statement form, and the correct word order for a question is changed. "How are you doing?" becomes "how he was doing" in reported speech. Therefore, option 4 is the correct answer.

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