Multiple choice

Directions: Change the following sentence into reported speech.

The father advised the boys, “Don’t go swimming in the water. There are sharks in it”.

  1. The father advised the boys not to go swimming in the water. He told them that there are sharks in it.

  2. The father advised the boys, “Don’t go swimming in the water. There were sharks in it”

  3. The father is advising the boys not to go swimming in the water. He told them that there were sharks in it.

  4. The father advised the boys not to go swimming in the water. He told them that there were sharks in it.

  5. .
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as in this sentence, the tense of the verbs have been changed from the present form to the past form.

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