Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
She said, “It is my birthday next week.”
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. She said that it was her birthday the following week.
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 simple present tense will be changed to simple past tense form.
- Further, the pronoun 'my' will be changed to 'her' in the indirect speech.
- The expression of time in the given speech 'next week' is changed to 'the following week' in the reported speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: She said that it was her birthday the following week.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. She said that it was her birthday the following week.