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Choose the correct reported construction of the following sentence:

He said to the interviewer, "Please repeat the question, sir."

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 4

A polite imperative beginning with 'please' is reported with 'requested' followed by an infinitive: requested + object + to + verb. Hence 'He requested the interviewer to repeat the question.' Option 2 wrongly uses 'if', which reports yes/no questions, and options 1 and 3 are structurally incorrect.

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