Question:
Choose the option that best expresses the given sentence in Indirect Speech:
The researcher said, ‘I have been analyzing this dataset for three months.’
The researcher said, ‘I have been analyzing this dataset for three months.’
दिए गए वाक्य को Indirect Speech में व्यक्त करने वाले सही विकल्प का चयन करें:
The researcher said, ‘I have been analyzing this dataset for three months.’
The researcher said, ‘I have been analyzing this dataset for three months.’
Options:
- The researcher said that he had been analyzing that dataset for three months.
- The researcher said that he has been analyzing this dataset for three months.
- The researcher said that he had analyzed that dataset for three months.
- The researcher told that he was analyzing this dataset for three months.
- The researcher said that he had been analyzing that dataset for three months.
- The researcher said that he has been analyzing this dataset for three months.
- The researcher said that he had analyzed that dataset for three months.
- The researcher told that he was analyzing this dataset for three months.
Correct Answer: a)
Explanation:
In indirect speech, when the reporting verb is in past tense (‘said’):
– ‘have been analyzing’ (Present Perfect Continuous) changes to ‘had been analyzing’ (Past Perfect Continuous).
– ‘this’ changes to ‘that’.
Hence: ‘The researcher said that he had been analyzing that dataset for three months.’
– ‘have been analyzing’ (Present Perfect Continuous) changes to ‘had been analyzing’ (Past Perfect Continuous).
– ‘this’ changes to ‘that’.
Hence: ‘The researcher said that he had been analyzing that dataset for three months.’
Reported speech का Present Perfect Continuous Tense बदलकर Past Perfect Continuous (‘had been analyzing’) हो जाता है तथा ‘this’ बदलकर ‘that’ हो जाता है।