Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Priya assured me, “I can stay in tonight.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. Priya told me that she could stay in that night.
The following steps should e followed to convert the steps into its indirect form:
- Identify the reporting verb, which is 'assured' in this sentence.
- Remove the quotation marks and add a conjunction 'that' after the reporting verb.
- Change the tense of the verb 'can' to the corresponding past tense, which is 'could,' as the direct speech is in the present tense.
- Change the pronoun 'I' to 'she' as it refers to Priya in the indirect form.
- Rearrange the words to make the sentence grammatically correct in the indirect form.
Thus, the correct form indirect form of the given sentence is:
Priya told me that she could stay in that night.