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Report These Question Using If/Whether Or Why/When/Where/How/Which/What.Remember the Italicised Verb Change into the Past Tense.She Asked Me, “When Are We Going to Leave?”

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Report these question using if/whether or why/when/where/how/which/what.
Remember the italicised verb change into the past tense.

She asked me, “When are we going to leave?”

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Solution

She asked me when we were going to leave.

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Chapter 5.1: The Snake and the Mirror - Thinking about Language [Page 62]

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NCERT English Beehive [English] Class 9
Chapter 5.1 The Snake and the Mirror
Thinking about Language | Q 4.4 | Page 62

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