Question

Choose the indirect speech for the following: \[ \text{She said, "I bought a house in Kakinada."} \]

• A. She said she has bought a house in Kakinada.
• B. She said she buys a house in Kakinada.
• C. She said she have bought a house in Kakinada.
• D. She said that she had bought a house in Kakinada.

Hint:

When converting from direct speech to indirect speech, ensure to adjust the tense appropriately. In this case, the simple past tense changes to the past perfect tense.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

In indirect speech, when the reporting verb is in the past tense ("said"), the tense in the reported speech changes. The correct transformation of the sentence is: "She said that she had bought a house in Kakinada," where "bought" (simple past) changes to "had bought" (past perfect) to maintain the correct sequence of tenses.