Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
"I have heard the podcast before," Nita says.
Option 1: Nita says that she is hearing the podcast before.
Option 2: Nita says that she had heard the podcast before.
Option 3: Nita says that she has heard the podcast before.
Option 4: Nita says that she had heard the podcast ago.
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Correct Answer: Nita says that she has heard the podcast before.
Solution : The right choice is the third option .
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- There would be no change in the reporting verb.
- There would be no change in the tense of the reported clause, as the reporting verb is in the simple present tense.
- The first-person pronoun "I" is changed to the third-person pronoun "she".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
Therefore, the indirect statement would be: "Nita says that she has heard the podcast before."
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