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Indirect Speech !!!

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by sumitkhurana » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:01 pm
Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.

(A) he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
(B) he said it had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
(C) he said that they would have to post the assignments on the bulletin board so that management and labor knew what everyone was
(D) he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
(E) saying that the schedule had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been
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by gaurav_saps » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:25 pm
sumitkhurana wrote:Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.

(A) he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
(B) he said it had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
(C) he said that they would have to post the assignments on the bulletin board so that management and labor knew what everyone was
(D) he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
(E) saying that the schedule had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been
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by gaurav_saps » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:26 pm
I think the answere is a
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by ManSab » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:43 pm
A.
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by ManSab » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:52 pm
A.
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by sumitkhurana » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:59 pm
Hi

I believe "he said that" is indirect speech. As I understand "must" gets replaced with "had to" in indirect speech, and "will" with "would".

Option A has both must and will. So, how is this option correct.

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by nawaab007 » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:00 am
One more A. Pls let us know the OA.
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by sumitkhurana » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:35 am
OA is A. But what's the explaination, why not D.
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by mals24 » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:00 am
Here you go maybe Ron could help you out.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/sc1-t10935.html

See thats why they say its always better to search before you post. You might stumble across some masterpiece explanations :)
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by sumitkhurana » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:59 am
Hey thanks a lot mals24. This really helped. I spent quite a lot of time figuring why D was wrong. Glad to know that it is not :)

BTW, how did you search this one. I typed the first 3 words in the search tab, and did not find this.
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