Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
Harry said to me, “Don’t wear this expensive watch to school.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. Harry told me not to wear that expensive watch to school.
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.
- If the sentence entails indirect commands, requests, advice, i.e. the sentence is imperative, the reporting verb will be changed to 'told' in the indirect speech and the conjunction 'to' will be used.
- Further, the word 'this' will be changed to 'that' in the indirect speech.
- Also, in the reported speech "don't" is changed into "not to".
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: Harry told me not to wear that expensive watch to school.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. Harry told me not to wear that expensive watch to school.