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Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
“We had opened the lock," they told me.

Option 1: They said that we had opened the lock.

Option 2: They said to me that they have opened the lock.

Option 3: They told me that they had opened the lock.

Option 4: They says that we had opened the lock.


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Correct Answer: They told me that they had opened the lock.


Solution : The third option is the correct choice.

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:

  • There would be no change in the reporting verb.
  • There would be no change in the tense of the reported clause because it is in the past perfect tense, "had opened".
  • The first-person pronoun "we" is changed to the third-person pronoun "they".
  • The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.

Therefore, the correct answer is: " They told me that they had opened the lock ."

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