Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
He said to me, "It was raining all day."
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. He told me that it had been raining all day.
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.
- The reporting verb 'said to' will change to 'told'.
- In the reporting speech, the tense i.e past continuous tense 'was raining' will be changed to past perfect continuous tense 'had been raining' when converting into indirect speech.
After following these steps, we got the indirect speech as: He told me that it had been raining all day.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 1 i.e. He told me that it had been raining all day.