Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
Sneha said to me, “I was watching TV.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct option is: Sneha told me that she had been watching TV.
The other options are incorrect:
- "Sneha said to me that I was watching TV." is incorrect because the pronoun is incorrect. The speaker is reporting what Sneha said, so the pronoun should be "she" not "I".
- "Sneha told me that she was watching TV." is also incorrect because the verb tense is incorrect. The indirect speech sentence should be in the past perfect continuous tense, not the past continuous tense.