Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
"What a rare flower!" she said.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
She exclaimed that it was a very rare flower.
The other options are incorrect:
- She asked if it was a rare flower. - This is incorrect because the reported speech is an exclamation, not a question.
- She exclaimed what a rare flower it is. - This is incorrect because the verb "is" in the reported speech is in the present tense, but the reporting verb "said" is in the past tense.
- She told that what a rare flower it was. - This is incorrect because the verb "told" in the reported speech suggests that the speaker was informing someone about the flower, but the original sentence is an exclamation.