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Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

The small girl said, “I have never been here before.”

Option 1: The small girl said that I have never been there before.

Option 2: The small girl said that she had never been there before.

Option 3: The small girl said that she has never been there before.

Option 4: The small girl said that she had never been here before.


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Correct Answer: The small girl said that she had never been there before.


Solution : The second option is the correct answer.

Indirect form, also known as indirect speech or reported speech, is a way of expressing someone else's words or statements without quoting them directly.
Narration Conversion:

  • The first person pronoun "I" changes to the third person pronoun "she " in the indirect speech to match the third person.
  • The present perfect tense " have never been " is changed to its past perfect form, " had never been".
  • The demonstrative pronoun " here" is changed to " there " to reflect the shift in perspective.

Therefore, the indirect form would be: The small girl said that she had never been there before.

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