Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Latika said to him, “I got a hefty discount on this television.”
Option 1: Latika told him that she has got a hefty discount on that television.
Option 2: Latika told him that she is getting a hefty discount on that television.
Option 3: Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.
Option 4: Latika told him that she has got a hefty discount on this television.
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Correct Answer: Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.
Solution : The correct choice is the third option.
In indirect speech, the past tense is changed into the past perfect tense and the quotation marks are omitted.
The steps to conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb "said" is changed to "told" in the indirect speech.
- The simple past tense "got" is changed to the past perfect tense "had got".
- The first-person pronoun "I" is changed to the third-person pronoun "she".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
- The determiner "this" is changed to "that".
Therefore, the correct sentence will be: Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.
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