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1771
Imran said to the hotel receptionist, “Please tell Zain I will come to see him tomorrow at 10 am.” **Options:**
A. … please to tell Zain … I will come … tomorrow …
B. … requested … please inform Zain … tomorrow …
C. … said … please tell Zain … I will come … tomorrow …
D. … requested … to inform Zain that he would come … the next day … at 10 am. Correct
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Please → requested, will → would, tomorrow → next day**. (a)/(b)/(c) keep “tomorrow/will.”
1772
The doctor told his patient, “Continue the same course of medicines for the next week.” **Options:**
A. … to continued …
B. … for continuing …
C. … that he may continue …
D. … to continue the same course of medicines for the following week. Correct
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Imperative → told … to + verb; next week → following week**. (a)/(b) wrong verb forms, (c) changes meaning.
1773
Maryam asked me, “How’s your brother?” **Options:**
A. Maryam asked me how was my brother.
B. Maryam asked me how your brother was.
C. Maryam asked me how my brother was.
D. Maryam asked me how is my brother. Correct
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Indirect wh-question → how my brother was**. (a)/(d) inversion, (b) wrong pronoun.
1774
The interviewer asked Ayaan, “Why did you leave that job last month?” **Options:**
A. … that why he leave …
B. … that why did he leave …
C. … why he had left that job the previous month.
D. … why you have left … Correct
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Past Indefinite → Past Perfect. last month → previous month**. Others grammatically wrong.
1775
She said to you, “I have a thousand rupees in my purse now.” **Options:**
A. … that she has … in my purse now.
B. … that she had … in her purse then.
C. … that she have … in my purse then.
D. … that she had … in her purse now. Correct
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have → had, my → her, now → then**. Others break pronoun/tense rules.
1776
She says, “I go for a walk every morning.” **Options:**
A. She said that she went for a walk every morning.
B. She says that she goes for a walk every morning.
C. She said that she goes for a walk every morning.
D. She says that I go for a walk every morning. Correct
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** Reporting verb in present → no backshift. Options (a)/(c) shift tense wrongly; (d) wrong pronoun.
1777
Father said to his daughter, “I will attend your convocation tomorrow.” **Options:**
A. Father told his daughter that he would attend her convocation the next day.
B. Father told his daughter I will attend her convocation tomorrow.
C. Father told his daughter that he will attend her convocation tomorrow.
D. Father told his daughter that he will be attending her convocation the next day. Correct
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will → would, tomorrow → the next day**. Others fail backshift.
1778
My grandmother said, “I bore six children.” **Options:**
A. … told that she had bore six children.
B. … said that she had borne six children.
C. … said that she has born six children.
D. … said she bore six children. Correct
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Past simple → Past Perfect; correct past participle = borne**. Others wrong verb form/tense.
1779
He said to the grocer, “What is the price of tomatoes?” **Options:**
A. He asked the grocer that what was the price of tomatoes.
B. He asked the grocer what the price of tomatoes was.
C. He asked the grocer what was the price of tomatoes.
D. He asked the grocer what is the price of tomatoes. Correct
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Correct word order → what the price … was**. (a)/(c) redundant “that/was”; (d) no backshift.
1780
Amina said to her daughter, “Don’t go near the well.” **Options:**
A. Amina requested to her daughter to go near the well.
B. Amina told her daughter that don’t go near the well.
C. Amina said her daughter you shouldn’t go near the well.
D. Amina warned her daughter not to go near the well. Correct
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Negative imperative → warned … not to**. Other options ungrammatical or alter sense.