Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
"What a hopeless fellow you are!" said the teacher to the student.
Option 1: The teacher told the student that you are a very hopeless fellow.
Option 2: The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
Option 3: The teacher said the student was what a hopeless fellow.
Option 4: The teacher told the student what are a hopeless fellow he was.
Correct Answer: The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option .
Narration Conversion:
- The exclamatory sentence is changed to the assertive sentence using the reporting verb told .
- The first-person pronoun y ou is changed to the third-person pronoun he in the indirect speech.
- Are is changed to was , as the simple present tense is changed to the simple past tense.
Therefore, the correct sentence is: The teacher told the student he was a very hopeless fellow .
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