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Bihar Police Constable Model Paper 3
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Question : 19
Total: 100
Direction: In the following question, a sentence is given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
Saheb’s mother said to him, “We were working in the paddy fields.”
Saheb’s mother said that they had been working in the paddy fields.
Saheb’s mother said to him that they had been working in the paddy fields.
Saheb’s mother told him that we were working in the paddy fields.
Saheb’s mother told him that they had been working in the paddy fields.
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Solution:
The given sentence is in Direct Speech. As per the question, we have to change it into Indirect Speech.
While changing the narration of an assertive sentence, we make the following changes:
'Said to' is changed to 'told + object'.
The first person (I/We) changes according to the subject and the second person (You) changes according to the object.
In the given sentence, the first person "we" changes to "they".
The conjunction 'that' is used in place of commas and inverted commas.
Past continuous tense changes to past perfect continuous tense.
'were working' will change to 'had been working'.
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