Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
The captain announced, “The flight will be delayed due to bad weather.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. The captain announced that the flight would be delayed due to bad weather.
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 'will' will be changed to 'would' when converting into indirect speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: The captain announced that the flight would be delayed due to bad weather.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. The captain announced that the flight would be delayed due to bad weather.