SSC-IMD-SA-ENGLISH-MOCK-02 – Question 18

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect voice:
The tour guide said, “We have been wandering for hours, but the ruins we have been searching for are just ahead, and we will reach there in a while.”

• The tour guide said that they had been wandering for hours, but the ruins they had been searching for were just ahead, and they would reach there in a while.
• The tour guide said that they have been wandering for hours, but the ruins they have been searching for are just ahead, and they will reach there in a while.
• The tour guide said that they had been wandering for hours, but the ruins they had been searching for are just ahead, and they would reach there in a while.
• The tour guide said that they were wandering for hours, but the ruins they were searching for were just ahead, and they would reach there in a while.

Tense changes for indirect speech: ‘have been wandering’ -> ‘had been wandering’, ‘are’ -> ‘were’, ‘will reach’ -> ‘would reach’. Option (a) accurately executes all shifts.