Choose the correct indirect narration of the following statement from the given alternatives: The farmer said, "There is a well nearby our village which is filled with different kinds of snails."
The farmer said that there was a well nearby their village which was filled with different kinds of snails.
This is a direct-to-indirect narration item, so apply the tense back-shift and pronoun changes triggered by the reporting verb 'said'.
Since the reporting verb 'said' is in the past, present-tense verbs in the quotation shift back one step into the past.
So 'There is a well' becomes 'there was a well', and the relative clause 'which is filled' becomes 'which was filled'.
The possessive 'our' must change to 'their' to agree with the third-person reporting subject 'the farmer'.
Combining these gives 'the farmer said that there was a well nearby their village which was filled with different kinds of snails'.
The option using 'had been filled' over-shifts one verb into the past perfect without cause, and the 'had been a well' option does the same to the other verb; the 'your village' option keeps the wrong pronoun.
The version that back-shifts both verbs consistently and fixes the pronoun is The farmer said that there was a well nearby their village which was filled with different kinds of snails.
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