Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Rita said," I am not feeling well".
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct indirect form of the given sentence is:
Rita said that she was not feeling well.
The other options are incorrect for the following reasons:
- Rita said she will not be feeling well. The modal verb "will" should be in the past tense, "was", to indicate that the statement is about a present situation.
- Rita said she is not feeling well. The reporting verb "said" should be in the past tense, "told".
- Rita says that I am not feeling well. The pronoun "I" should be replaced with the pronoun "she", since the statement is being reported from the perspective of a third person narrator.