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Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
He said, “You were making excuses.”

Option 1: He said that I had been making excuses.

Option 2: He said that you were making excuses.

Option 3: He said that you had been making excuses.

Option 4: He said that I was making excuses.


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Correct Answer: He said that I had been making excuses.


Solution : The correct choice is the first option.

The steps of conversion are as follows:

  • There would be no change in the reporting verb.
  • The past continuous tense "were making" is changed to the past perfect continuous tense "had been making".
  • The second-person pronoun "you" is changed to the first-person pronoun "I".
  • The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.

Therefore, the correct indirect speech of the given sentence will be: "He said that I had been making excuses."

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