English Grammar - Narration

English Grammar
English Grammar - Narration

A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech: She said, "He doesn't listen to me."


Options:

  1. She said he don't listen to her.
  2. She said that he doesn't listened to her.
  3. She said that he didn't listen to her.
  4. She said that he didn't listened to her.

Right Answer: She said that he didn't listen to her.

Converting direct speech to indirect requires the conjunction 'that', a pronoun shift and a back-shift of tense. Since the reporting verb 'said' is in the past, the present simple 'doesn't listen' must move back to the past simple 'didn't listen'. The pronoun 'me' becomes 'her' because the speaker is now referred to in the third person. Option three applies all three changes correctly. Option one keeps the non-standard 'don't'. Options two and four wrongly add '-ed' to 'listen' after an auxiliary that already carries the tense. Hence option three is correct.

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