Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
“What a hopeless fellow you are!” said the teacher to the student.
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
“What a hopeless fellow you are!” said the teacher to the student.
The teacher said the student was what a hopeless fellow.
The teacher said the student was what a hopeless fellow.
The teacher told the student that you are a very hopeless fellow.
The teacher told the student that you are a very hopeless fellow.
The teacher told the student what are a hopeless fellow he was.
The teacher told the student what are a hopeless fellow he was.
The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
Correct Answer:
The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
The teacher told the student that he was a very hopeless fellow.
Said to is changed to exclaimed/exclaimed with joy/exclaimed with sorrow/ exclaimed with grief/ confessed with regret/ shouted with applause/ cried out/ eagerly wished and “that” is used as a conjunction. Sign of exclamation (!) if given is removed and a full stop is used. If the reported verb has words like “what a” or “how”, then “very” is used in place of them in the indirect speech.
Hence in accordance to the rules stated above, Option D is the most appropriate.
