Practicing Success
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. Mother said to Kavya, "Switch off the light before you go to sleep." |
Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before you go to sleep. Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before she is going to sleep. Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before she goes to sleep. Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before she went to sleep. |
Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before she went to sleep. |
The correct indirect form of the sentence is Mother told Kavya to switch off the light before she went to sleep. In indirect speech, the reporting verb (told) is used in the past tense, and the pronouns are changed to reflect the new speaker. In this case, the speaker is the mother, so the pronoun "you" is changed to "she". The adverb "before" is also moved to the front of the sentence. |