Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
Anshul said to Vibha, “We will shift all the furniture to the new house.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence is:
Anshul told Vibha that they would shift all the furniture to the new house.
The other answer choices are incorrect for the following reasons:
- Anshul told Vibha that they will shift all the furniture to the new house. - This is incorrect because the tense of the verb in the subordinate clause is not correct. It should be "would shift" instead of "will shift."
- Anshul told Vibha that we would shift all the furniture to the new house. - This is incorrect because the pronoun "we" refers to the speaker and the listener, but the speaker is reporting what Anshul said.
- Anshul told Vibha that they will be shifting all the furniture to the new house. - This is incorrect because the present continuous tense is generally not used in indirect speech.