Question : Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
Anne said, “Next week I have my first skating lesson.”
Option 1: Anne said that in the following week she had her first skating lesson.
Option 2: Anne said that in the next week she has her first skating lesson.
Option 3: Anne said that the following week I had my first skating lesson.
Option 4: Anne said that the next week I have my first skating lesson.
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Correct Answer: Anne said that in the following week she had her first skating lesson.
Solution : The first option is correct.
- When the reported speech is in the present perfect tense, then it changes to the past perfect tense. Thus, have is changed to had .
- The reporting verb said remains the same.
- That is used to connect the main clause to the reported clause.
- The first-person pronoun I is changed to she in the reported speech.
- Next week is changed to the following week to accurately convey the time frame in the reported speech.
Therefore, the sentence in indirect form is: Anne said that in the following week, she had her first skating lesson .
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