Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
“If you don’t keep quiet, I shall send you out,” said the teacher to the students.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Correct Answer: The teacher warned the students that if they didn’t keep quiet, he would send them out.
Explanation
• Reporting Verb: Since the direct statement conveys a disciplinary threat, the reporting verb said to changes appropriately to warned.
• Tense Shift: Simple present don’t keep changes to simple past didn’t keep, and shall changes to would when reported in the past tense.
• Pronoun Changes: Second-person pronoun you refers to the students and changes to they and them. First-person pronoun I refers to the teacher and changes to he.
• Conjunction: The statement is joined using the conjunction that followed by the conditional clause.