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Shaunak Mahapatra from Mount Litera Zee School, Contai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence in indirect speech :
Arjun said, “Raju plays badminton everyday.”
Arjun said that Raju ___________ badminton everyday.

A plays
B played
C will play
D is playing


I think that the answer should be option 'D'.

Ans 1:

AP from St Mary icse school , Navi Mumbai
Class : Class 6
Should be plays {option a} as it is raju plays badminton and even in the past form raju still continues to play .Verb should be in base form

Ans 2:

Vaishnavi from DPS , Singapore
Class : Class 3

Ans 3:

Joe from St.Vincent pallotti, Bangalore
Class : Class 6

Ans 4:

Sara Verma from The Sanskaar Valley School , Bhopal
Class : Class 4

Ans 5:

Sara Verma from The Sanskaar Valley School , Bhopal
Class : Class 4
Why is it Option B (Played). Raju plays badminton daily and should have base form used in it.

Ans 6:

Aarushi Garg from Nirma Vidya vihar, Ahmedabad
Class : Class 6
I think it is plays

Ans 7:

Soma Chattopadhyay from G.D.Birla, kolkata
Class : Class 7
it shoul be plays

Ans 8:

Rohan from Sanskriti, delhi
Class : Class 5
should be "plays"

Ans 9:

Garv Agarwal from Somerville School Noida, Noida
Class : Class 4

Ans 10:

Anushka kumar from DPS paradip, odisa
Class : Class 9

Ans 11:

Sri Susrutha Chowdary Karnati from Vibgyor high , Bangalore
Class : Class 8
It should be Option A ..... I think it was a mistake.

Ans 12:

Riaant Gupta from Delhi Public School Dwarka, New Delhi
Class : Class 6
why is it option B not option A

Ans 13:

shalini mittal from DPS Greater Noida, Greater noida
Class : Class 4
Yup yup it is plays as it is present tense and a habit

Ans 14:

Yashasvi Sharan from St. Lawrence International School, KALYAN
Class : Class 6
It is option A

Ans 15:

Hari Govind from Delhi Public School Chandigarh , Chandigarh
Class : Class 6
The answer should be option A

Ans 16:

Spoorthi Naveen from New Horizon Gurukul, Bangalore
Class : Class 7
Its B or A

Ans 17:

Krishiv Goyal from Ridge Valley School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 6
B

Ans 18:

Swarnava Pal from Vivekananda Mission School, Haldia
Class : Class 8
It can be option a or b . option a is most likely

Ans 19:

rethish from Veltech, Avadi
Class : Class 3
No the ans is [b]only played

Ans 20:

Vaishnavi from DPS , Singapore
Class : Class 3

Ans 21:

Ahan Biswas from National Public School, Bangalore
Class : Class 8

Ans 22:

Aarav bhatt from St annes convent, chandigarh
Class : Class 6
The given sentence is a statement.According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'plays' will change into 'played'. Thus, the complete sentence must be,Arjun said that Raju played badminton everyday.Thus option B is the correct answer.Options A,C,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.

Ans 23:

Saransh Agrawal from Meridian School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 9
yup it is A

Ans 24:

Vidhya M from Vibgyor High Bannerghatta, Bangalore
Class : Class 7

Ans 25:

Ahan Biswas from National Public School, Bangalore
Class : Class 8
It is played as you are using indirect speech .

Ans 26:

Sai Srivardhan from Maharishi Vidya Mandir Chetpet, Chennai
Class : Class 9
The statement "Raju plays badminton everyday"is a fact.Facts always remain in present.

Ans 27:

Saksham Chanani from Sri Sri Academy, Kolkata
Class : Class 9
A should not be the answer, i think it is B

Ans 28:

Sharmi Chowdhury from G.D Birla Centre For Education , Kolkata
Class : Class 7
Answer should have been B.Raju always plays it, so it should remain plays....

Ans 29:

AGNIVA MANDAL from DPS Megacity, Kolkata
Class : Class 8
the answer should be A because playing is a habitual activity here

Ans 30:

P A Reyyansh from Ann Mary School, Dehradun
Class : Class 10
It Should Be "Pl@ys"

Ans 31:

Bhadra from ISG, Muscat
Class : Class 6
It should be A

Ans 32:

Aarav Srivastav from DWPS , Noida Extension
Class : Class 7
should be play

Ans 33:

Aarnav Grover from Anand Niketan Shilaj, Ahmedabad
Class : Class 9
but he still plays badminton he hasn't stopped playing it everyday. It should be (A)

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