Question

Read the dialogue between a librarian and a student.
Librarian: Welcome back! It's good to see you, young man!
Student: Thanks! I was overloaded with assignments, so I have not visited the library this week.
Based on the conversation above, report the dialogue between a librarian and a student by completing the sentence.
The librarian greeted the student warmly, expressing pleasure at his visit. The student thanked her and explained that __________ which had limited his recent visits to the library.
Select the correct option from those given below :

• A. he had been overloaded with assignments
• B. he has been overloaded with assignments
• C. he was overloaded with assignments
• D. he is overloaded with assignments

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

he had been overloaded with assignments

Answer 2

Sentence Completion: The librarian greeted the student warmly, expressing pleasure at his visit. The student thanked her and explained that he had been overloaded with assignments , which had limited his recent visits to the library.

Correct Option: (A) he had been overloaded with assignments.

Explanation: The verb was in direct speech changes to had been in the past perfect tense to reflect the sequence of events in reported speech.