Previous Year Questions

The sentence in the Indirect Speech is in Past Perfect Tense.

There are three cases when the Indirect Speech is in Past Perfect Tense.

· Tense remains same

· Past perfect changes to Present Perfect

· Past perfect changes to Simple Past

Case 1: Past Perfect (Subject + had + V3 + Object) tense will be kept intact.

For example:

He said that he had just finished the movie. (Indirect Speech)

He said, "I had just finished the movie" (Direct Speech)

Case 2: Past Perfect (Subject + had + V3 +Object) will be converted into Present Perfect (Subject + has/have + V3 +Object).

For example:

He said that he had got a new job. (Indirect Speech)

He said, "I have got a new job." (Direct Speech)

Case 3: Past Perfect (Subject + had + V3 + Object) will be converted into Past Simple (Subject + V2 + Object).

For example:

He said that Arya had sent him a book. (Indirect Speech)

He said, "Arya sent me a book" (Direct Speech)

The following things in the sentence will change when changed from Indirect Speech to Direct Speech:

Here, "had been" changes to "has been".

Here, the use of "informs" in option 4 is incorrect as reporting verb should be in past tense for a past tense sentence.

So, option 1 is correct here.