IBPS PO Prelims practice question
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in Direct Speech. They said that they were supposed to arrive earlier.
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Correct answer: (B) They said, "We were supposed to arrive earlier."
They said, "We were supposed to arrive earlier." (Correct) Normally, present tense in direct speech is changed into corresponding past tense in indirect speech. But in the given sentence, the word ‘earlier’ is a comparative degree, which indicates that we were supposed(expected) to arrive earlier, but we did not. Therefore, past tense will remain in the direct speech. Hence, option (b) gives the correct direct speech.
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