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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

The policeman said to the Inspector, "I arrested a man who broke the window of a car."

Options:

The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man who broke the window of a car.

The policeman told the inspector that he arrested a man who broke the window of a car.

The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man who had broken the window of a car.

The policeman told the inspector that I arrested a man who broke the window of a car.

Correct Answer:

The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man who had broken the window of a car.

Explanation:

The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:

The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man who had broken the window of a car.

The other options are incorrect:

The policeman told the inspector that he arrested a man who broke the window of a car. This is incorrect because the tense of the reported speech is in the present tense, but the reporting verb is in the past tense.
The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man who broke the window of a car. This is incorrect because the verb "break" is in the simple past tense in the reported speech, but it should be in the perfect past tense to describe an action that happened in the past and has a result in the present.
The policeman told the inspector that I arrested a man who broke the window of a car. This is incorrect because the speaker is using the pronoun "I", which is not appropriate in this context.