Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The landlord said to me, “Did you pay the water bill on time?”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. The landlord asked me if I had paid the water bill on time.
The given sentence is in direct speech, to convert this sentence into indirect speech we need to follow the following points:
- Inverted commas will get omitted and 'if' will be used.
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When the direct speech is in an interrogative form, the reporting verb said to is converted into asked.
- Past simple tense i.e. 'did .... pay' in direct speech changes to past perfect in indirect speech i.e. 'I ...... paid'.
- Further, the pronoun 'you' will be changed to 'I'.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: The landlord asked me if I had paid the water bill on time.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. The landlord asked me if I had paid the water bill on time.