Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Kavya said to her husband, “I don’t mind being a busy woman.”
Option 1: Kavya told her husband that she had not mind being a busy woman.
Option 2: Kavya told her husband that she do not mind being a busy woman.
Option 3: Kavya said to her husband she did not mind being a busy woman.
Option 4: Kavya told her husband that she did not mind being a busy woman.
Correct Answer: Kavya told her husband that she did not mind being a busy woman.
Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option .
Indirect speech, also known as reported speech or indirect discourse, is a way of reporting what someone else has said without quoting their exact words.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb "said" is changed to "told" in the indirect speech.
- The simple present tense "don't" is changed to the simple past tense "did not".
- The first-person pronoun "I" is changed to the third-person pronoun "she".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
Therefore, the indirect statement would be: "Kavya told her husband that she did not mind being a busy woman."
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