Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
“Everything is going to be alright,” said the doctor.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. The doctor said that everything was going to be alright.
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.
- If the reporting speech is in present continuous tense, it will be changed to past continuous tense.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as:The doctor said that everything was going to be alright.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. The doctor said that everything was going to be alright.