2020 · Q114
In this section two sentences are given and you are required to find the correct sentence which combines both the sentences.
Navanitha said to her friends, "What a scintillating beauty it is!"
Choose the correct indirect speech.
EnglishCorrelating Sentences
- ANavanitha told to her friends that it was a scintillating beauty.
- BNavanitha exclaimed to her friends what a scintillating beauty it was.
- CNavanitha asked her friends whether it was a scintillating beauty.
- DNavanitha exclaimed to her friends that it was a scintillating beauty.
Explanation
The exclamation becomes 'exclaimed... that it was a scintillating beauty' — option D. A wrongly uses 'told to'; B's 'exclaimed... what' is unidiomatic with 'to her friends'; C turns it into a question.