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Option 3 : The constable said that he had photographed the footprints before the rain had started.
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सही उत्तर The constable said that he had photographed the footprints before the rain had started. है।
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The constable said, "I had photographed the footprints before the rain started." Choose the correct reported speech.
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The constable said that he photographed the footprints before the rain started.
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The constable said that he has photographed the footprints before the rain started.
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The constable said that he had photographed the footprints before the rain had started.
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The constable said that he had photographed the footprints before the rain started.
Correct Answer: The constable said that he had photographed the footprints before the rain had started.
Past perfect in direct speech stays past perfect in reported speech, and the time clause backshifts too: "before the rain started" becomes "before the rain had started". Options (a) and (b) wrongly change the tense, and (d) backshifts only half the sentence.
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