Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

 

"German is easy to teach", German teacher said.

Options:

German teacher says German is easy.

German teacher told us that German was easy to teach.

German teacher informed German was easy to teach.

German teacher said that German was easy to teach.

Correct Answer:

German teacher said that German was easy to teach.

Explanation:

Answer: (d)     

Hint: Reporting speech has assertive sentence. Conjunction ’that’ is used. Reported speech is in past tense hence reporting speech tense-simple present changed into simple past.