Choose the correct transformation of the following sentence into indirect speech:
The lady said to the servant, "If you don't wash the clothes properly, I will dismiss you."
Choose the correct transformation of the following sentence into indirect speech:
The lady said to the servant, "If you don't wash the clothes properly, I will dismiss you."
Solution
✅ Correct Option: 4
A threat is reported with 'warned'. In indirect speech, pronouns shift to third person and tenses move back: 'will' becomes 'would' and 'don't' becomes 'didn't'. Option 4 makes all these changes correctly while preserving the conditional threat. Option 3 fails to backshift tenses, and options 1 and 2 lose the threat.
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