Question : The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don't find any error, mark 'No Error' as your answer
The receptionist asked if Diya / will take a seat and / wait for the boss to call her in.
Option 1: The receptionist asked if Diya
Option 2: No Error
Option 3: will take a seat and
Option 4: wait for the boss to call her in
Correct Answer: will take a seat and
Solution : The error lies in the second part of the sentence .
In reported speech, it's common to change the tense of the reported verb to match the tense of the reporting verb. In this case, asked is in the past tense, so will take should be changed to would take to maintain the tense consistency.
Therefore, the correct sentence is: "The receptionist asked if Diya would take a seat and wait for the boss to call her in."
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