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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
He said to me, 'I am grateful to you.'

  1. A
    He told me he is grateful to me.
  2. B
    He said that I am grateful to you.
  3. C
    He says to me that he is grateful to me.
  4. D
    He told me that he was grateful to me.

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

When converting from Direct to Indirect Speech:
"said to me" changes to "told me".

The conjunction "that" replaces the quotation marks.

The first-person pronoun "I" changes according to the subject ("He"), becoming "he".

The second-person pronoun "you" changes according to the object ("me"), becoming "me".

The simple present tense verb "am" changes to simple past tense "was" because the reporting verb is in the past tense.
Thus, the sentence becomes: "He told me that he was grateful to me."

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
He said to me, 'I am grateful to you.'
A
He told me he is grateful to me.
B
He said that I am grateful to you.
C
He says to me that he is grateful to me.
D
He told me that he was grateful to me.

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