Question

(ii) The teacher said, “Akhtar, why were you absent yesterday?”
(Begin: The teacher asked Akhtar…)
1. The teacher asked Akhtar why he was absent yesterday.
2. The teacher asked Akhtar why were you absent yesterday.
3. The teacher asked Akhtar why are you absent yesterday.
4. The teacher asked Akhtar why he had been absent the previous day.


(iii) In spite of the water logging the traffic was heavy.
(Begin: Despite…)
1. Despite the water logging the traffic was heavy.
2. Despite of the water logging the traffic was heavy.
3. Despite the traffic being heavy there was water logging.
4. Despite of water logging there was heavy traffic.


(iv) As soon as the whistle blew, the game stopped.
(Begin: No sooner…)
1. No sooner did the whistle blow, the game stopped.
2. No sooner than the whistle blew, the game stopped.
3. No sooner did the whistle blew, than the game stopped.
4. No sooner did the whistle blow, than the game stopped.

Answer 1

Answer:

2) The teacher asked Akthar why he had been absent the previous day.

Answer 2

The correct answers for the sentences are (ii) - 4, (III) - 1 and (iv) - 4

• In the given sentences, they are being started with a particular word thus, changing their overall tense and grammar.
• Thus, as per the new beginning words the correct sentences are -

(ii) The teacher asked Akhtar why he had been absent the previous day.

(iii) Despite the water logging the traffic was heavy.

(iv) No sooner did the whistle blow, than the game stopped.