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The government has announced, "Taxes will be raised":
Answer & Solution
Correct Answer:
Option
C
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.
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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LoginAs the Reporting verb is in present Tense, so the Tense of the indirect speech will not change.
Reported verb(has announced )is in present tense therefore 'will' cannot be changed into would.
Kindly make the correction.
Please changed the correct answer as c
So Ans C is correct.
Answer is correct.
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....