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Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
My coach said, “You should take a healthy diet.”

Option 1: My coach told me that I should have taken a healthy diet.

Option 2: My coach told me that I should take a healthy diet.

Option 3: My coach told me that you should take a healthy diet.

Option 4: My coach told me that I shall take a healthy diet.


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Correct Answer: My coach told me that I should take a healthy diet.


Solution : The correct choice is the third 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".
  • There would be no change in the tense of the reported clause because it is the universal truth .
  • 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 sentence is: My coach told me that I should take a healthy diet.

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