Discussion
He said, "The horse died in the night".
Answer: B
The correct reported form is He said that the horse had died in the night.
When the reporting verb is in the past tense (said), the simple past in the direct speech (died) moves back to the past perfect (had died). The phrase in the night is not a time word tied to the speaker's moment, like tonight, so it stays as it is.
The first option keeps died without the backshift. The third and fourth replace said with exclaimed, and the fourth adds sadly; nothing in a plain statement supports either change.
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