Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Latika said to him, “I got a hefty discount on this television.”
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.
- The following steps should be followed to convert the given direct form of the sentence into its indirect form:
- Change the reporting verb, 'said' to 'told'.
- The inverted commas will be replaced by that and comma should be removed.
- The pronoun "I" changes in accordance to the reporter i.e., 'she' and the auxiliary verb changes according to the sentence.
- The direct speech is in simple past tense changes to past perfect tense on conversion.
Thus, the correct form of indirect sentence is:
Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.