Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

 

He said to me, "Is there any possibility of my getting promotion this year?"

Options:

He asked me if there was any possibility of my getting promotion this year.

He asked me if there was any possibility of his getting promotion this year.

He asked me if there was any possibility of his getting promotion that year.

He asked me if there is any possibility of his getting promotion this year.

Correct Answer:

He asked me if there was any possibility of his getting promotion that year.

Explanation:

Answer-3

Reporting speech has interrogative sentence without question word, hence ‘if/whether’ is used as conjunction. Reporting speech tense-Simple Present changed into Simple Past.