Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Kavya said to her husband, “I don’t mind being a busy woman.”
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. Kavya told her husband that she did not mind being a busy woman.
The grammatical rule followed to convert the given sentence to its indirect form is:
- Identify the reporting verb or the verb of saying, which is 'said.'
- Remove the comma and the inverted commas used in the direct speech.
- Use the conjunction 'that' to join the reporting verb with the reported speech.
- Change the tense of the reported speech, i.e., 'don't mind' to 'did not mind.'
- Replace said that with told..
Therefore, the indirect form of the given sentence would be:
Kavya told her husband that she did not mind being a busy woman.