Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
"I live in Mumbai," she said.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. She said that she lived in Mumbai.
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 'said' remains unchanged.
- In the reporting speech, the pronoun 'I' will be changed to 'she' when converting into indirect speech.
- The reporting speech is in simple present tense. So, converting into indirect speech, the tense will be chnaged to simple past tense.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: She said that she lived in Mumbai.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. She said that she lived in Mumbai.