English Grammar - Narration

English Grammar
English Grammar - Narration

A sentence is provided in direct speech. Choose the option that most accurately conveys it in indirect speech: He said, "I am not feeling well."


Options:

  1. He said that he is not feeling well.
  2. He said that he was not feeling well.
  3. He said that he didn't felt well.
  4. He said he not feeling well.

Right Answer: He said that he was not feeling well.

When the reporting verb is in the past tense, as in 'He said', the tense of the reported speech must be moved one step back. The present continuous 'am not feeling' therefore changes to the past continuous 'was not feeling'. The first person pronoun 'I' also changes to the third person 'he', since the speaker is being reported by someone else. Option two applies both rules correctly. Option one keeps the present tense, option three uses the ungrammatical form 'didn't felt', and option four omits the verb altogether. Hence option two is correct.

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