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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:

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 2:

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

Ans 3:

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

Ans 4:

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

Ans 5:

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 6:

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

Ans 7:

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

Ans 8:

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

Ans 9:

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

Ans 10:

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

Ans 11:

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 12:

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 13:

Vaishnavi from DPS , Singapore
Class : Class 4

Ans 14:

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 15:

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)

Ans 16:

Vaishnavi from DPS , Singapore
Class : Class 4

Ans 17:

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 18:

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

Ans 19:

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

Ans 20:

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

Ans 21:

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

Ans 22:

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

Ans 23:

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

Ans 24:

Garv Agarwal from Somerville School Noida, Noida
Class : Class 5

Ans 25:

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

Ans 26:

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

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:

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

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:

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

Ans 31:

Anushka kumar from DPS paradip, odisa
Class : Class 9

Ans 32:

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

Ans 33:

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

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