SSC CGL 24 Aug 2021 Shift 2 Paper

Question : 92 of 100

Marks: +1, -0

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
He said to me, "It was raining all day."

He told me that it had been raining all day.
He told me it is raining all day.
He told me it has been raining all day.
He told me it was raining all day.

Solution:

The given sentence belongs to Past Continuous as the sentence use was

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ing form of verb.
So, Past Perfect Continuous should be used to change the narration of the sentence. The correct reported form of the given sentence would be 'He told me that it had been raining all day'.

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