Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Anita said to the mother, "Your child has been crying since morning."
Option 1: Anita told the mother that her child was crying since morning.
Option 2: Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning.
Option 3: Anita told the mother that her child had been cry since morning.
Option 4: Anita told the mother that your child had been crying since morning.
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Correct Answer: Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The indirect form of reported speech involves reporting what someone else said without quoting them directly.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb " said " is changed to "told" .
- The second-person pronoun "your" is changed to the third-person pronoun "her".
- The tense shifts from the present perfect continuous "has been crying" to the past perfect continuous "had been crying".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
Therefore, the indirect form would be: "Anita told the mother that her child had been crying since morning."
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