Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Everybody said, "How well she sings!"
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
Everybody exclaimed that she sings very well.
The other options are incorrect for the following reasons:
- Everybody told us that she sings very well. The reporting verb "told" is not typically used to report exclamations.
- Everybody exclaimed that she sang very well. The verb "sang" should be in the present tense, "sings", to indicate that the exclamation is about a present situation.
- Everybody told us that how she sang very well. The sentence structure is grammatically incorrect.