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The given sentence is a direct speech, and we need to convert it into indirect speech. The sentence is in present tense. And it is in interrogative form.
The rules for changing such sentences into indirect speech are given below:-
• The inverted commas (“ “) used in Direct Narration is removed in Indirect Narration.
• If the reported speech is in Yes/No question form, then if/whether is used before reported speech.
• ‘Said to’ will be changed to ‘inquired’ in indirect speech.
• Present tense changes to past tense i.e. ‘is’ will be changed to ‘was’.
• Person pronoun changes according to the object of reporting speech i.e. here, ‘anyone’ will remain same.
• Question mark will be removed.
The sentence in indirect speech will be :- “He inquired whether anyone was ready.”
Hence, option A is the correct answer.