Discussion
Convert the reported speech and mark your answer in the response sheet.
She said, "I met him yesterday".
Answer: B
The reported speech is She said that she had met him the previous day.
When the reporting verb is in the past (said), the tense shifts back one step: the simple past met becomes the past perfect had met. The pronoun I becomes she, and the time word yesterday becomes the previous day (or the day before).
She said she met him yesterday keeps both the tense and the time word unchanged. She said she has met him yesterday uses the present perfect, which cannot go with yesterday. She said that she met him the previous day changes the time word but not the tense, so it is only half converted.
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