Multiple choice

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

The clerk said to the officer, “Sir, can I go home now?” The clerk :

  1. asked the officer that he could go home then

  2. requested his officer that he could go home then

  3. said his officer that he wants to go home

  4. asked the officer respectfully if he could go home then
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The word 'Sir' in direct speech is replaced by the adverb 'respectfully' in indirect speech. The question is reported using 'if' or 'whether', and the words 'can' and 'now' change to 'could' and 'then'.

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