Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
He said to me, “Your father is waiting for you at the reception.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. He told me that my father was waiting for me at the reception.
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.
- The reporting verb 'said' to will be changed into 'told'.
- In the reporting speech, present continuous tense will be changed to past continuous tense.
- 'Your' will be changed into 'my' and 'you' will be changed into 'me'.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: He told me that my father was waiting for me at the reception.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. He told me that my father was waiting for me at the reception.