Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
I said to Taru, “The tyre of my car is punctured.”
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3, i.e. I told Taru that the tyre of my car was punctured.
- This option is correct because the tense has been accurately portrayed unlike the other options. The given sentence implies past tense 'punctured' and so the option needs to depict the same tense in order to make identical sense. This option uses 'was punctured', hence becoming the correct answer to the question.