Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
The librarian said, “Let no student be issued a book till next week.”
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. The librarian said that no student was to be issued a book till the following week.
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 'that' will be used.
- In assertive sentences which does not have an object like in the given sentence, the reporting verb 'said' remains unchanged.
- In the reporting speech, the verb 'issued' expresses the past tense form. Therefore, the infinitive 'be issued' is changed to past infinitive 'was to be issued'.
- The expression of time in the given speech 'next week' is changed to 'the following week' in the reported speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: The librarian said that no student was to be issued a book till the following week.