Report the speech: She said, 'I am tired.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. She said that she was tired.
- Step 1: Backshift the tense: am becomes was. Step 2. Change the pronoun I to she. Answer: She said that she was tired. Why not the others: the others keep the present, keep I, or shift to the future.
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