Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
The French scientist said, “I want to study how bees and wasps find their way home.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct option is: The French scientist said that he wanted to study how bees and wasps found their way home.
The other options are incorrect:
- "The French scientist said that he wants to study how bees and wasps found your way home." is incorrect because the pronoun is incorrect. The speaker is reporting what the French scientist said, so the pronoun should be "their" not "your".
- "I want to study how bees and wasps found their way home." is incorrect because the speaker is not reporting what they said, so the pronoun should be "he" not "I".
- "I wanted to study how bees and wasps found their way home." is incorrect because the verb tense is incorrect. The reported speech sentence should be in the past tense, not the present tense.