Question

Tap the sentence that uses reported speech correctly.
Direct speech: The boys said to me, ‘You have to go to the garden to see the flowers.’

• A. The boys told me that we had to go to the garden to see the flowers.
• B. The boys told me that they had to go to the garden to see the flowers.
• C. The boys told me that I had to go to the garden to see the flowers.
• D. The boys told me that she had to go to the garden to see the flowers.

Answer 1

The correct option is C The boys told me that I had to go to the garden to see the flowers.

‘The boys told me that I had to go to the garden to see the flowers.’ is the correct sentence. The pronoun ‘you’ in direct speech changes to ‘I’ because the reporter and the person the speakers are talking to are the same person.