Choose the correct reported speech: He said, 'I am tired.'

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C. He said that he was tired.

  1. Step 1: In reported speech, I becomes he and present tense moves back to past. Answer: He said that he was tired. Why not the others: The others keep the wrong tense or the wrong pronoun.

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