Question

Choose the most appropriate indirect narrations of the given sentence:
Alisha said,”I liked the dessert in the party.”
A) Alisha said that she had liked the dessert in the party.
B) Alisha said that she liked the dessert in the party.
C) Alisha told that she had liked the dessert in the party.
D) Both A and C

Answer 1

Hint: Indirect narrations is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech. For example: Direct Speech: She said, “I am watching a movie”. Indirect Speech: She said that she was watching a movie.

Complete step by step answer:
Option A) Alisha said that she had liked the dessert in the party – is the correct answer because this sentence is the correct narration of the direct speech, as 'I liked' is changed to 'she had liked' as the tense changes from simple past to past perfect. Hence, this is the correct answer.
Option B) Alisha said that she liked the dessert in the party – is an incorrect answer because the simple past tense verb 'liked' has not been changed to past perfect 'had liked'. So, this is not an appropriate answer. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) Alisha told that she had liked the dessert in the party – is an incorrect answer because the reporting verb has changed from 'said' to 'told'. Also, 'told' does not mean the same as 'said'. The former means 'you're telling something to someone' whereas the latter means that 'to use your voice to express something'. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

So, the correct answer is “Option A ”.

Note:
Direct speech describes when something is being repeated exactly as it was usually in between a pair of inverted commas. Indirect speech will still share the same information but instead of expressing someone's comments or speech by directly repeating them, it involves reporting or describing what was said.