Question:
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect voice.
The doctor said, “If you follow a balanced diet, you will feel better.”
दिए गए वाक्य को Indirect Voice में बदलने वाला सही विकल्प चुनिए।
The doctor said, “If you follow a balanced diet, you will feel better.”
Options:
- The doctor said that if you follow a balanced diet, you would feel better.
- The doctor said that if he/she followed a balanced diet, he/she would feel better.
- The doctor said that if one follows a balanced diet, you will feel better.
- The doctor said that if one followed a balanced diet, one would feel better.
- The doctor said that if you follow a balanced diet, you would feel better.
- The doctor said that if he/she followed a balanced diet, he/she would feel better.
- The doctor said that if one follows a balanced diet, you will feel better.
- The doctor said that if one followed a balanced diet, one would feel better.
Correct Answer: d)
Explanation:
In generic conditional statements addressed generally, ‘you’ converts to the indefinite pronoun ‘one’, and present tenses shift to past in reported speech: ‘follow’ -> ‘followed’, ‘will’ -> ‘would’. Hence, ‘The doctor said that if one followed a balanced diet, one would feel better.’
सामान्य सलाह में ‘you’ को अनिर्दिष्ट सर्वनाम ‘one’ में बदला जाता है तथा रिपोर्टेड स्पीच के नियम के अनुसार ‘follow’ का ‘followed’ और ‘will’ का ‘would’ हो जाता है।