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Manna asked Rohan, "Have you sat in a trolley bus before ?"

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Correct Answer: Option D
In direct speech, the question is: "Have you sat in a trolley bus before?"
To convert it into indirect speech, we use the reporting verb "asked" followed by the reporting clause "if" or "whether" and the appropriate tense. In this case, the tense remains the same as the original question, so "have" becomes "has" in the indirect speech because it's referring to the present perfect tense.
Therefore, the correct conversion is: "Manna asked Rohan if he has ever sat in a trolley bus."
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MAHIDHAR KARNATI
MAHIDHAR KARNATI 4 months ago
Manna asked Rohan if he had ever sat in a trolley bus.
JAYADEV PATEL
JAYADEV PATEL 11 months ago
Has or had
JAYADEV PATEL
JAYADEV PATEL 11 months ago
Has or had
Atif Mangi
Atif Mangi 2 years ago
This is wrong answer. As per rules of narrations, Present Perfect Tense changes into Past Perfect Tense while making indirect speech. Kindly rectify this blunder.
Blackboard8721
Blackboard8721 3 years ago
Wrong answer.
Please update the answer option and add or replace the wrong answer choice with "Manna asked Rohan wheater he had sat in a trolley bus earlier."
Muhammad Usman
Muhammad Usman 3 years ago
Please remove the mistake for newcomers
Pangpi Yumnam
Pangpi Yumnam 4 years ago
wrong options...
Rahul Mondal
Rahul Mondal 4 years ago
Why it will be the option number A, I couldn't understand. So, Please clarify me.
I think it will be:-
Manna asked Rohan wheater he had sat in a trolley bus earlier.
Ipsha Here
Ipsha Here 4 years ago
All options are wrong.
The right answer is Manna asked Rohan if he had sat in a trolley bus before.
Kartik Chandra
Kartik Chandra 4 years ago
Mana asked rohan if he had sat in trolly bus before.
Ghulam Mustafa
Ghulam Mustafa 5 years ago
The answer is wrong
Correct
Manna asked Rohan if he had sat in a trolley bus earlier
Vishal Sahane
Vishal Sahane 6 years ago
See the uses of conditional sentences u will get it
Manish Yadav
Manish Yadav 8 years ago
Answer should be........
Manna asked rohan if he had sat in trolly bus before
Manav Mahanta
Manav Mahanta 9 years ago
In this question, why we doesn't use "If". It is a Interrogative sentence. and It can be answer in Yes/No format. Please explain
AMIT KUMAR
AMIT KUMAR 9 years ago
in this sentence the part of speech is in interrogative mode and also started with "have", so according to the rule when we changed the sentence into indirect speech than we replaced the helping verb and we used "if/whether" instead of is/am/are/has/have/etc. and after it we right the sentence in assertive mode.