Choose the correct indirect narration of the following statement from the given alternatives:
He said, "The green fields are looking like a bride in a green dress."
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct Answer: He said that the green fields were looking like a bride in green dress.
Explanation
• When changing a direct speech sentence into indirect speech, if the reporting verb (said) is in the past tense, the tense of the reported speech changes into its corresponding past tense.
• The present continuous tense (are looking) changes into the past continuous tense (were looking).
• The quotation marks are removed and replaced with the conjunction that.