Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

He said, “You were making excuses.”

He said that I had been making excuses.

The correct indirect form of the given sentence is He said that I had been making excuses.

The other options are incorrect:

• "He said that you were making excuses." is incorrect because the pronoun is incorrect. The speaker is reporting what was said to them, so the pronoun should be "I" not "you".
• "He said that you had been making excuses." is incorrect because the pronoun is incorrect and the verb tense is incorrect. The speaker is reporting what was said to them, so the pronoun should be "I" and the verb tense should be "had been making".
• "He said that I was making excuses." is incorrect because the verb tense is incorrect. The reporting verb is in the past tense, so the verb in the indirect speech sentence must also be in the past tense.