Question

Change the following statement into indirect speech
He told her “I want to meet your father”
(A) He told her that i want to meet your father.
(B) He told her that he wanted to meet her father.
(C) He told her that he wanted to meet your father.
(D) He told her that she want to meet her father.

Answer 1

Hint: Here the tense in reported speech is in present tense so it has to be converted in past tense for its conversion into indirect speech. Direct speech is a phrase in which speech marks (also known as quotation marks or inverted commas) repeat the exact words spoken whereas indirect speech is a way of communicating, without directly quoting, the content of arguments, questions or other arguments, as is done in direct speech.

Complete step by step answer:
The tense of the reported verb is transformed into its corresponding past form according to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense. In the given sentence, 'told', the reporting verb is in the past form. The recorded verb 'want' would then transform into 'wanted'. The pronoun 'I' in the first person would change to 'he' in the third person. Options A, C, D are wrong because the Narration and Reporting rules are not followed. Hence the option ‘B’ is the right answer.

Hence the option B is the right answer.

Additional Information:
Direct To Indirect Speech Conversion – Reporting Verb. When the reporting verb of direct speech is in past tense then all the present tenses are changed to the corresponding past tense in indirect speech.

Note:
First of all study all the rules of direct to indirect conversion, only then you will be able to answer these types of questions. After reading all the given options thoroughly, assess what the correct answer may be.