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Tap the option that correctly completes the sentence in reported speech.

Direct speech: Sherry said to Ram, ‘You can do it!’
Reported speech: Sherry told Ram that could do it.

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we
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he
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they
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she
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Solution

The correct option is B he
The correct sentence is ‘Sherry told Ram that he could do it.’ The pronoun ‘you’ in direct speech changes to ‘he’ in reported speech, because the speaker is talking to ‘Ram’, who is of the masculine gender.

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