Choose the most appropriate indirect construction of the given sentence:
"I shouldn't have said that," she whispered.
Choose the most appropriate indirect construction of the given sentence:
"I shouldn't have said that," she whispered.
Solution
✅ Correct Option: 2
In indirect speech the reporting verb 'whispered' is retained and the quoted words become a that-clause. 'Should have said' stays unchanged since past modals do not shift further back. So the correct form is: She whispered that she shouldn't have said that. Options 1 and 3 change the reporting verb or meaning, and option 4 wrongly alters the tense.
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