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Choose the correct option which best expresses the following same sentence in Indirect speech.

Anil said, "Ali deserved the prize".

Solution

Correct Option: 4

When the reporting verb is in past tense (said), simple past in direct speech changes to past perfect in indirect speech. Deserved becomes had deserved. Hence: Anil said that Ali had deserved the prize.

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