Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
He exclaimed, “What a fine piece of architecture it is!”
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. He exclaimed that it was a fine piece of architecture.
The given sentence is in direct speech, to convert this sentence into indirect speech we need to follow the following points:
- Inverted commas will get omitted and 'that' will be used.
- In assertive sentences which does not have a direct personal object like in the given sentence, the reporting verb 'announced' remains unchanged.
- In the reporting speech, the verb 'is' will be changed to 'was' when converting into indirect speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: He exclaimed that it was a fine piece of architecture.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 4 i.e. He exclaimed that it was a fine piece of architecture.