Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
Mary says "I clean my room every day."
Mary says that __________________

• A. I clean her room every day.
• B. She cleans my room every day.
• C. She cleaned her room every day.
• D. She cleans her room every day.
• E. her room was cleaned every day.

Answer 1

The correct option is D She cleans her room every day.

The given sentence is a statement.

According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the reported verb is not changed. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'says', is in the present form.Therefore, the reported verb should be in the present tense. The pronoun 'I' changes into 'she'.

Thus the complete sentence must be,

Mary says that she cleans her room everyday.

Thus option D is the correct answer.

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