Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Direct/indirect

Question:

Change the following sentence into indirect speech :

She said, "My brother has gone out".

Options:

She said her brother is out.

Her brother went out, she said.

She said that her brother had gone out.

Her brother went to market.

Correct Answer:

She said that her brother had gone out.

Explanation:

She said that her brother had gone out.

This is the most grammatically correct way to convert the sentence into indirect speech. The verb "has gone out" is past perfect, which means that the action happened before the reporting verb "said". Therefore, we need to use "had gone out" in indirect speech.