Question : Select the correct indirect narration of the given sentence.
The chemist said, “We do not have stock of this medicine now.”
Option 1: The chemist said that we do not have stock of this medicine now.”
Option 2: The chemist said that they are not having stock of that medicine now.
Option 3: The chemist said that we did not have stock of this medicine then.
Option 4: The chemist said that they did not have stock of that medicine then.
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Correct Answer: The chemist said that they did not have stock of that medicine then.
Solution : The fourth option is the correct choice.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- There would be no change in the reporting verb in the indirect speech.
- "We" (a first-person pronoun) is changed to "they" (a third-person pronoun).
- The present tense "do not" is changed to the past tense "did not".
- "This" is changed to "that".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
Therefore, the correct answer is: "The chemist said that they did not have stock of that medicine then."
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