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Option 3 : The photographer said that he had developed the negatives.

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सही उत्तर The photographer said that he had developed the negatives. है।

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Choose the correct indirect-speech form of: The photographer said, "I have developed the negatives."

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The photographer said that he has developed the negatives.
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The photographer said that he had develop the negatives.
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The photographer said that he had developed the negatives.
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The photographer says that he had developed the negatives.

Correct Answer: The photographer said that he had developed the negatives.

In reported speech the present perfect "have developed" shifts back to the past perfect "had developed", and the reporting verb stays in the past tense ("said"); (a) fails to backshift, (b) uses the wrong verb form, and (d) wrongly changes the tense of "said". / (English-only section)

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