Choose the correct indirect speech form of the following sentence. Rabi said to Mohini, "Let's go to the market and purchase some vegetables."
Rabi suggested Mohini to go to the market and purchase some vegetables.
The direct sentence begins with "Let's", which proposes a joint action that includes the speaker. Such a sentence is a suggestion, not a command or a request.
In indirect speech, a 'Let's' sentence is reported with the verb 'suggested' (or 'proposed'). The inverted commas and 'Let's' are dropped, and the action is given with 'to' + the base form of the verb: 'to go to the market and purchase some vegetables'.
'Requested' reports a polite request such as "Please go ...", which is not what Rabi said. 'Urged ... to went ... purchased' uses past forms after 'to', which is ungrammatical, and 'told ... to have gone ... have purchased' uses the perfect infinitive and turns the suggestion into an order.
Hence, the indirect speech is: Rabi suggested Mohini to go to the market and purchase some vegetables.
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