The government has announced, "Taxes will be raised":
A. The government has announced that taxes would be raised.
B. The government has announced that taxes would raised.
C. The government has announced that taxes will be raised.
D. The government has announced taxes will be raised.
Answer: Option C
Solution (By Examveda Team)
The sentence is in direct speech: "The government has announced, 'Taxes will be raised.'"To convert it into indirect speech, we observe the tense of the reporting verb — "has announced", which is in the present perfect tense.
Rule: When the reporting verb is in the present, present perfect, or future tense, the tense in the reported speech does not change.
Since "will be raised" is a future tense construction and the reporting verb is not in the past, we keep "will be raised" as it is.
Option C correctly follows this rule: "The government has announced that taxes will be raised."
Option A is incorrect because it unnecessarily changes "will" to "would", which should only occur when the reporting verb is in the past tense.
Option B is grammatically incorrect because "would raised" is not a valid construction — it should be "would be raised".
Option D is incorrect because it omits the conjunction "that", making the sentence grammatically informal and incomplete for reported speech.
Therefore, the correct answer is Option C.
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Correct Option is C.
As the Reporting verb is in present Tense, so the Tense of the indirect speech will not change.
Wrong option.
Reported verb(has announced )is in present tense therefore 'will' cannot be changed into would.
Kindly make the correction.
Yeah C should be correct.
Please correct this typo as this is incorrect. My mother being an english teacher has also justified that like the other correct people in the comments, the answer would be C. Please fix this as early as possible. With regards.
Option C is correct.
I think c is correct bcz R.V. is in present tense so tense would not be changed.
Answer will be "c"
Please changed the correct answer as c
Kindly change the correct option as C
I think answer bis option A ,bez tens will be changed to would
A should be the answer
Will be change into would be in future tense
A is correct
The right answer is C. Remember when the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the reported verb will not change.
C
A answer is correct
May be A
Risht ans is a
Becouse reporting verb is in present tense, so reported speech will not change.
So Ans C is correct.
Here reported verb is in present tense, so reported speech will not change.
Answer is correct.
remains in present or future then reported part remains unchanged
example The govt has announced,"Taxes will remain unchanged.''
now The govt has announced that taxes will remain unchanged.
if it's wrong discussion appreciable....
A should be the correct answer
its not a universal truth or a habit.....a should be the answer
The goverment has announced that taxes would be raised