Tap the option that correctly reports the given direct speech sentence.

Asmita said, 'I am not joining the dance festival as I'm feeling shy.'

Asmita said that, she was not joining the dance festival as she was feeling shy.

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Asmita said she was not joining the dance festival as she was feeling shy.

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Asmita said that she was not joining the dance festival as she was feeling shy.

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Solution

The correct option is C Asmita said that she was not joining the dance festival as she was feeling shy.
The correct answer is ‘Asmita said that she was not joining the dance festival as she was feeling shy.’ As the sentence changes from direct to reported speech, the tense changes from present continuous to past continuous. It talks about an ongoing action that took place in the past. It follows the structure of ‘subject + was/were + present participle form of verb’. It has the negative word ‘not’ between the main verb ‘joining’ and the helping verb ‘was’.

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