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Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence.

“You should lock your car as there have been some instances of theft,” said Anil.

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SSC CGL 2018 (Tier 2) Statistics Previous Year Paper (22-feb-2018)
The correct answer is

Anil advised me that I should lock my car as there had been some instances of theft.

Anil is giving advice ("You should lock..."), so the reporting verb becomes advised. "You" / "your" become "I" / "my", the modal "should" is retained for advice, and the present perfect "have been" backshifts to past perfect had been.

This yields Option 2: Anil advised me that I should lock my car as there had been some instances of theft. Option 4 wrongly changes "should" to "must" and uses "his car", reversing the meaning.

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