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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2020 — General Studies · Question 10 of 200

Q10
EnglishVoice, Narration & Sentence Transformation
Choose the correct indirect statement: He said, 'grass is green.'
  1. a.He told that grass is green.
  2. b.He told that grass was green.
  3. c.He told that grass had been green.
  4. d.He told that grass will always be green.

Answer: (A) He told that grass is green.

Universal truths keep their present tense unchanged in reported speech, regardless of the tense of the reporting verb.