Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
Everybody said, "We're glad the danger is over."
Everybody said that ______________________.

• A. He was glad the danger was over
• B. They are glad the danger is over
• C. They were glad the danger was over
• D. He is glad the danger is over

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

They were glad the danger was over

The given sentence is a statement.

According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'are' will change into 'were' and 'is' will change into 'was'. The pronoun 'we' will change to third person 'they'

Thus, in indirect speech the sentence must be,

Everybody said that they were glad the danger was over.

Thus option C is the correct answer.

Options A,B,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.