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Question : Select the correct indirect narration of the given sentence.

The team leader said to us, "Congratulations! You have prepared a very good presentation."

Option 1: We told our team leader that we had prepared a very good presentation and he said congratulations.

Option 2: The team leader congratulated us and said that we had prepared a very good presentation.

Option 3: The team leader told us congratulations and we had prepared a very good presentation.

Option 4: The team leader said congratulations and told us that we have prepared a very good presentation.


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Correct Answer: The team leader congratulated us and said that we had prepared a very good presentation.


Solution : The correct answer is the second option.

Indirect speech, also known as reported speech or indirect discourse, is a way of reporting what someone else has said without quoting their exact words.

Narration conversion:

  • The exclamatory sentence is changed to an assertive sentence by using the reporting verb "congratulated".
  • The second-person pronoun "you" is changed to the first-person pronoun "we".
  • The present perfect tense "have prepared" is changed to the past perfect tense "had prepared".
  • The phrase "and said" appropriately connects the actions.

Therefore, the correct answer is: The team leader congratulated us and said that we had prepared a very good presentation.

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