Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
Albus said to his friends, "Everyone is staring at us again."
Option 1: Albus was told by his friends that everyone is staring at them again.
Option 2: Albus told his friends that everyone was staring at them again.
Option 3: Albus informed his friends everyone was staring at us again.
Option 4: His friends were told by Albus that everyone was staring at us again.
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Correct Answer: Albus told his friends that everyone was staring at them again.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
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.
Narration conversion:
- Change the reporting verb from "said" to "told".
- Change the first-person pronoun "us" to the third-person pronoun "them" to match the perspective of Albus in the reported speech.
- Change the verb tense from the present tense ("is staring") to the past tense ("was staring") to maintain the sequence of tenses.
Therefore, the correct answer is: Albus told his friends that everyone was staring at them again.
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