Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.
He said, "I am tired."

He said that he was tired.Correct answerYour answerHe said that I was tired.Correct answerYour answerHe said that he had been tired.Correct answerYour answerHe told that he was tired.Correct answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer A

Correct answer: A

"I" becomes "he", and the past reporting verb moves "am" back to "was": "He said that he was tired."

Worth noting

"He told that" is wrong: "told" must be followed by a person, as in "he told me that".

Concept: A statement in reported speech
Typical timeTypical: 45 s
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The rule this testsDirect and indirect speech

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Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.He said, "I am tired."

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Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.
He said, "I am tired."