Question : Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
Jayesh said to Diwakar, "You can top the class if you want to."
Option 1: Jayesh told Diwakar that he would top the class if he wants to.
Option 2: Jayesh told Diwakar that he could top the class if he wanted to.
Option 3: Jayesh told Diwakar that you could top the class if you wanted to.
Option 4: Jayesh told Diwakar that you can top the class if you want to.
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Correct Answer: Jayesh told Diwakar that he could top the class if he wanted to.
Solution : The second option is the correct answer.
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.
The changes from direct speech to indirect speech involve the following:
- As the reporting verb is in the past tense, "can" will be changed to "could", and "want" will be changed to "wanted".
- "Said to" changes to "told" in the indirect speech.
- The object of reporting verbs is "Diwakar"; hence, "you" has been replaced by "he" in the reported speech.
- "That" is used to introduce the reported clause.
Therefore, the correct answer is: Jayesh told Diwakar that he could top the class if he wanted to .
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