Question : Select the most appropriate option to change the sentences from Direct Speech to Reported Speech.
The HR said, “Are you interested in the offer?”
Option 1: The HR said that if I was interested in the offer.
Option 2: The HR said that if I were interested in the offer.
Option 3: The HR asks if I am interested in the offer.
Option 4: The HR asked me if I was interested in the offer.
Correct Answer: The HR asked me if I was interested in the offer.
Solution :
The correct answer is option 4.
The HR asked me if I was interested in the offer.
Explanation:
The direct sentence is in the simple present tense in interrogative form, hence in order to convert it into indirect, we need to follow the below rules.
When we convert a sentence from the direct to the indirect mode(especially for a sentence ending with a mark of interrogation). we reverse the subject-verb placement. In direct sentences, we have the verb before the subject; while in indirect, the verb follows the subject.
When the reporting or principal verb is in the present tense, all present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding past tenses.
His mother asked, “Who are you?”
Option 1: His mother asked who he was.
Option 2: His mother asked me who he was.
Option 3: His mother asks me who he was.
Option 4: His mother asked who I was.
“I am going shopping tonight,” Esha said.
Option 1: Esha said that she was going shopping tonight.
Option 2: Esha said that she was going shopping that night.
Option 3: Esha said she was going shopping that night.
Option 4: Esha said that she will be going shopping that night.
She said, “Let us have coffee here.”
Option 1: She proposed that we had coffee there.
Option 2: She asked if we wished to have coffee there.
Option 3: She said that we should have coffee there.
Option 4: She said that we had coffee there.
Question : Select the most appropriate option to change the sentences from Direct Speech to Reported Speech. Rani said, “We went for a winter vacation.”
Option 1: Rani said that they went on a winter vacation.
Option 2: Rani said that they were on a winter vacation.
Option 3: Rani said that they had gone on a winter vacation.
Option 4: Rani said they went for a winter vacation.
Ram said, “I will watch hereafter.”
Option 1: Ram said that he would watch hereafter.
Option 2: Ram said that he will watch thereafter.
Option 3: Ram said that he would watch thereafter.
Option 4: Ram said that he will watch hereafter.
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