SSC CPO 2024 PYQ — Question 22

SSC CPO Tier II - 8 Jan 2024 • English • Q22

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

Ankit said to Ashna, “Do you know that the annual meeting has been postponed?”

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. Ankit asked Ashna if she knew that the annual meeting had been postponed.

The indirect form of the sentence is "Ankit asked Ashna if she knew that the annual meeting had been postponed."

This is correct because it transforms the direct question "Do you know that the annual meeting has been postponed?" into indirect speech by using "asked" for the reporting verb, "if she knew" to introduce the reported question, and "had been postponed" to correctly shift the present perfect tense to past perfect, aligning with the reporting time.