Question

Patient to doctor : "Can I take solid food?" The reported form of the above sentence is:

• A. The patient asked the doctor could took she solid food
• B. The patient asked the doctor whether could she take solid food
• C. The patient asked the doctor can she taken solid food
• D. The patient asked the doctor whether she could take solid food

Answer 1

Answer:

D. The patient asked the doctor whether she could take solid food

• Can → Could: When the reporting verb is in the past tense (asked), “can” generally changes to “could” in reported speech.

• Question word: “Whether” or “if” is used to report a yes/no question.

• Word order: The question changes into statement order: subject + verb. Therefore, “could she take” becomes “she could take.”

• Pronoun change: “I” changes to “she” because the patient is referred to in the third person.

• Verb form: After the modal verb “could,” we use the base form of the verb, take, not “took” or “taken.”

Rule: Subject + asked + object + whether/if + subject + verb.