Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.

She said, “I am in no mood to work now.”

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SSC CGL 2022 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On : 01 Dec 2022 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is She said that she was in no mood to work then.

Key Points

In the original sentence, "She said, 'I am in no mood to work now,'" the verb is in the present tense ("am") and the time reference is the present ("now").
When converting this to indirect speech:
- The pronoun "I" changes to "she" to match the subject of the sentence.
- The verb tense changes, or "backshifts," from the present tense ("am") to the past tense ("was").
- This reflects that the reported speech happened in the past.
- The time reference changes from "now" to "then" to show that the time of the reported speech is different from the time the words were originally spoken.
- Hence, the correct answer will be Option 3, "She said that she was in no mood to work then."