Question
Download Solution PDFSelect the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Anita said to the mother, “Your child has been crying since morning.”
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 'Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning.'.
Key Points
- The given sentence is in direct speech.
- We need to convert it into Indirect Speech.
- The rules of conversion are :
- Reporting verb 'Said to' is coverted to 'Told'.
- Commas and Inverted commas will be replaced with 'that'.
- If personal pronouns are there in the reported speech,it will be changed according to the subject and the object of the reporting verb .
- If the sentence is in Present Perfect Progressive in Direct speech, then it will change to Past perfect progressive in Indirect speech.
- Structure : has/have+ been+ V1+ing (direct) to had +been + V1+ing (indirect)
- Finally,we will get the final sentence, 'Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning'.
- Hence, the correct answer is option 2.
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