Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Latika said to him, " I got a hefty discount on this television."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
Latika told him that she had got a hefty discount on that television.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- Latika told him that she has got a hefty discount on that television. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "has."
- Latika told him that she is getting a hefty discount on that television. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "is."
- Latika told him that she has got a hefty discount on this television. - This sentence does not change the demonstrative pronoun "this" to "that."