Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Sarita said to me, “I’m glad I did not leave my village.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
Sarita told me she was glad she had not left her village.
The other options are incorrect:
- Sarita told me she was glad she was not leaving her village. This is incorrect because the tense of the reported speech is in the present tense, but the emotion is in the past.
- Sarita told me she is glad she had not left her village. This is incorrect because the tense of the reported speech is in the present tense, even though the emotion is in the past.
- Sarita told me I am glad she had not left her village. This is incorrect because Sarita is not talking about the speaker's feelings, but her own feelings.