Practicing Success
Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence. Ravi asked, “Ritu, how many sets of class 12 practice papers have you finished?” |
Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers she had finished. Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers was she finishing. Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers had she been finishing. Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers she has been finishing. |
Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers she had finished. |
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is: Ravi asked Ritu how many sets of class 12 practice papers she had finished. When changing from direct speech to indirect speech, there are a few rules that must be followed. One of these rules is that the tense of the reported speech must be changed to the past tense. In this case, the direct speech is in the present perfect tense ("have you finished"), so the indirect speech must be in the past perfect tense ("had finished"). The other options are incorrect because they use the wrong tense.
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