Change the following sentences into Reported Speech by choosing the correct option.
"If you want to smoke you'll have to go upstairs." said the landlord.

Question

Change the following sentences into Reported Speech by choosing the correct option. 
"If you want to smoke you'll have to go upstairs." said the landlord.

Accepted Answer

Here's a detailed explanation justifying why Option 2 is the correct reported speech transformation and why the other options are incorrect:

**Why Option 2 is Correct:**

Option 2, "The landlord told him that if he wanted to smoke he would have to go upstairs," is the correct reported speech transformation because it accurately reflects the original statement while adhering to the rules of tense and pronoun changes.

*   **Reporting Verb:** The reporting verb "said" in the direct speech correctly changes to "told" in the reported speech, implying the landlord addressed someone specifically. The addition of "him" clarifies the intended recipient of the landlord's statement.
*   **Tense Shift:** The original sentence is a conditional sentence (Type 1). In reported speech, the tenses shift back one step. "want" (present simple) becomes "wanted" (past simple), and "will have to go" (future simple) becomes "would have to go" (conditional). This tense shift is crucial for accurate reporting of past conversations.
*   **Pronoun Change:** The pronoun "you" in the direct speech correctly changes to "he" in the reported speech, reflecting that the landlord was addressing someone else.
*   **Conjunction "that":** The conjunction "that" is correctly used to introduce the reported clause.

**Why Other Options are Incorrect:**

*   **Option 1: "The landlord told him that if he wants to smoke he'll have to go upstairs."** This option is incorrect because it fails to shift the tenses back. "wants" and "he'll" (he will) are in the present tense and future tense respectively, which is incorrect for reported speech of a past statement.

*   **Option 3: "The landlord said that if he would want to smoke he would go upstairs."** This option is incorrect because "would want" is an unnatural and grammatically awkward construction in this context. The correct conditional form after "if he wanted" is "would have to go," indicating obligation. Also, the original sentence implies an obligation to go upstairs, not simply a desire to go upstairs.

*   **Option 4: "The landlord says if you wanted to smoke you would have to go upstairs."** This option is incorrect for several reasons. First, the reporting verb "says" is in the present tense, implying the landlord is currently saying this, which contradicts the context of reporting a past statement. Second, the pronoun "you" is not changed to reflect that the landlord was speaking to someone else.