Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
“We had opened the lock.” they told me.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is: OPTION 3
They told me that they had opened the lock.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- They said that we had opened the lock. - This sentence does not change the first person pronoun "we" to the third person pronoun "they."
- They said to me that they have opened the lock. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "have."
- They says that we had opened the lock. - This sentence is grammatically incorrect.