Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
“We will wait for you if you are late,” they said to me on the telephone.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I was late.
Given sentence: “We will wait for you if you are late,” they said to me on the telephone.
Replace "said to" with "told" and inverted commas with "that".
Rule: The subject and the verb of the reported speech are changed.
The subject "we" is changed to "they", and "you" to "I".
The verb "will wait" is changed to "would wait", and verb "are" into "was".
The object "you" is changed to "me".
So, the final sentence is:
They told me on the telephone that they would wait for me if I was late.