Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
Mother said to her, "I expected a better result from you."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct option is: Mother told her that she had expected a better result from her.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- Mother told her that she expected a better result from her. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "had."
- Mother told her that she was expecting a better result from you. - This sentence uses the present continuous tense for the reported speech, which is incorrect in indirect speech.
- Mother told her that she expected a better result from you. - This sentence does not change the second person pronoun "you" to the third person pronoun "her."