Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Choose the option which best expresses the same sentence in reported speech:-

Kavita said, "I'll tell Rahini I met you."

Options:

Kavita said that she will tell Rahini she met me.

Kavita said that she would tell Rahini she met me.

Kavita said that she would tell Rahini she had met me.

Kavita told that she would tell Rahini she had met me.

Correct Answer:

Kavita said that she would tell Rahini she had met me.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Kavita said that she would tell Rahini she had met me.

The reported speech sentence needs to reflect the appropriate changes for verb tenses and pronouns. Here's the breakdown of the changes:

- The reported speech of "I'll tell Rahini I met you" requires changing "I'll" to "she would" to match the past tense in reported speech.
- "I met you" needs to be changed to "she had met me" to reflect the past perfect tense in reported speech.

So, option 3, "Kavita said that she would tell Rahini she had met me," correctly incorporates these changes, making it the most accurate transformation of the original sentence into reported speech.