Question : Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
“We will wait for you if you are late,” they said to me on the telephone.
Option 1: They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I am late.
Option 2: They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I was late.
Option 3: They said to me on the telephone that we will wait for you if you are late.
Option 4: They said to me on the telephone that they will wait for me if you were late.
Correct Answer: They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I was late.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The indirect form of a sentence involves reporting or conveying what someone else said without directly quoting their exact words.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- "said" would be changed to "told".
- "You" (third-person pronoun) would be changed to "me" (first-person pronoun).
- "If you are late" changes to "if I was late" to maintain the structure and perspective.
Therefore, the indirect form would be: " They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I was late."
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