Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
“Please lend me some money, Raman. I need it urgently,” said Sumesh.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. Sumesh requested Raman to lend him some money as he needed it urgently.
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.
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If the sentence entails indirect commands, requests, advice, i.e. the sentence is imperative, the reporting verb will be changed to 'requested' in the indirect speech and the conjunction 'to' will be used.
- Next, the pronoun 'me' will be changed into the pronoun 'him' and pronoun 'I' will be changed to 'he' in the indirect speech.
- The simple present tense form will be changed into the simple past tense form in the reporting speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: Sumesh requested Raman to lend him some money as he needed it urgently.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. Sumesh requested Raman to lend him some money as he needed it urgently.