Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The father said to his daughter, "Your mother will be waiting for me."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
The father told his daughter that her mother would be waiting for him.
The other options are incorrect because they do not follow these rules:
- The father told his daughter that her mother was waiting for me. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "was."
- The father told his daughter that my mother would be waiting for him. - This sentence changes the second person pronoun "your" to the first person pronoun "my."
- The father told his daughter that her mother will be waiting for him. - This sentence does not change the present tense to the past tense for the auxiliary verb "will."