Multiple choice

Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence in indirect narration.

The teacher said to me, “Have you read this book?” The teacher :

  1. told to me that had I read this book

  2. said to me that had I read this book

  3. asked me if I had read that book

  4. told me that I had read that book
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C Correct answer
Explanation

For Yes/No questions, the reporting verb is changed to asked and the connector if or whether is introduced. The present perfect tense have you read is shifted to the past perfect had read, and the demonstrative this becomes that.

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