C. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Sahir: Can I go and play, father?
Father: Have you finished your work?
Sahir: No father, but I can finish it afterwards.
Father: No, my boy, you must do your work first.
Sahir asked his father (a)
He father asked him (b)
Sahir replied in negative and said that (c)
At this, his father advised him saying (d).
Answers
Answer:
Sahid : Can i go and play father ?
Sahid asked his father if he could go and play with him.
Father : Have you finished your homework ?
His father asked in respond if he had finished his homework.
Sahid : No father, but i can finish it afterwards.
Sahid responded in negative and said that he could finish it afterwards.
Father : No, my boy you must do your work first.
His father replied that no, he must do his work first.
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Know more :-
If the reported speech expresses some universal truth, habit, historical incident or permanent fact, it's tense remains unchanged even if the reporting verb is in the past tense.
If the reported speech consists of two actions taking place at the same time, it's tense remains unchanged whatever the tense of the reporting verb may be