Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The lawyer said to me, "There is no proof of your involvement in this case."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
The lawyer told me that there was no proof of my involvement in that case.
The other options are incorrect:
- The lawyer told that there is no proof of my involvement in that case. - This is incorrect because the verb "is" in the reported speech is in the present tense, but the reporting verb "told" is in the past tense.
- The lawyer told me that there is no proof of your involvement in this case. - This is incorrect because the pronoun "your" in the reported speech refers to the listener, not the speaker.
- The lawyer said me that there was no proof of my involvement in this case. - This is incorrect because the pronoun "me" is in the accusative case, but it should be in the nominative case in this context.