English Narration Narration Change Assertive and Interrogative sentence Question #7350 (CAT-I)

Convert the following into indirect speech: My friend said, "I have never seen such a beautiful place."

A My friend said that he had never seen such a beautiful place.

B My friend said that he has never seen such a beautiful place.

C My friend told that he had never seen such a beautiful place.

D My friend said that I had never seen such a beautiful place.

Correct Answer & Explanation

Option A

• For an assertive sentence, 'said' remains 'said' if there is no object, and the connector 'that' is used. • The first-person pronoun 'I' changes to 'he' (referring to 'my friend'). • The present perfect tense 'have never seen' changes to past perfect 'had never seen' because the reporting verb 'said' is in the past tense.

Convert the following into indirect speech: My friend said, "I have never seen such a beautiful place."

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