Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
He said, “It’s been raining since last night.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. He said that it had been raining since the night before.
The given sentence is in direct speech.
Rules of changing a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech:
- Use the reporting verb such as (say, said to) in its correct tense.
- Put a comma before the statement and the first letter of the statement should be in capital letter.
- Insert question mark, quotation marks, exclamation mark and full stop, based on the mood of the sentence.
- Remove the conjunctions like (that, to, if or whether) wherever necessary.
- Where the reporting verb is in past tense in indirect, change it to present tense in the direct speech.
- Change the past perfect tense either into present perfect tense or past tense, as necessary.
Thus, the correct indirect form of the sentence is:
He said that it had been raining since the night before.