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