Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Anita said to the mother, "Your child has been crying since morning."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- Anita told the mother that her child was crying since morning. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "was."
- Anita told the mother that her child had been cry since morning. - This sentence does not change the infinitive "to cry" to the past participle "crying."
- Anita told the mother that your child had been crying since morning. - This sentence does not change the second person pronoun "your" to the third person pronoun "her."