Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
“Read the instructions before you start making the dish,” Deepa's mother said to her.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is Deepa's mother told her to read the instructions before she started making the dish.
The other options are incorrect:
- Deepa's mother told to her to read the instructions before you start making the dish. This is incorrect because the pronoun "you" should be "her" to match the speaker.
- Deepa's mother told her to read the instructions before you had made the dish. This is incorrect because the tense of the reported speech should be the past tense, not the past perfect tense.
- Deepa's mother said her to read the instructions before she start making the dish. This is incorrect because the word "start" should be "started" to match the past tense.