Question

You: Have you seen Diane?
Charlie: I haven't seen Diane recently.
This is the conversation between Charlie and You yesterday.
Later that day you tell another friend about what Charlie said.
Use Reported Speech in the sentence below:
Charlie: I haven't seen Diane recently.
a- He said that he hasn’t seen Diane recently.
b- He said that he didn’t seen Diane recently.
c- He said that he hadn’t seen Diane recently.
d- He asked if he hadn’t seen Diane these days.

Answer 1

Hint: There are two types of reported speech- Direct and Indirect speech. Direct speech expresses the original words or quotes stated by a speaker, whereas Indirect speech involves the expression of those words in past tense form.

Complete answer:
As given in the hint, direct and indirect speech have different functions.
Let’s look at the rules that we need to follow while changing direct speech into indirect speech-
1) We remove the quotation marks in indirect speech.
2) We change the tense of the verb into the corresponding past tense.
3) We also change the pronouns in indirect speech.
In the given question- We can conclude that Charlie had not seen Diane recently. Hence, the correct indirect speech should be; He said that he hadn’t seen Diane recently.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘He said that he hasn’t seen Diane recently’ is an incorrect option because we need to change the helping verb, ‘have’ into the past tense form, ‘had’.
Option b- ‘He said that he didn’t seen Diane recently’ is an incorrect option because we cannot use ‘did’ with a past participle form of a verb.
Option c- ‘He said that he hadn’t seen Diane recently’ is the correct option because we have changed the corresponding helping verb into past tense form.
Option d- ‘He asked if he hadn’t seen Diane these days’ is an incorrect option, because he did not ask a question.
So, the correct answer is “Option c”.

Note:
Keep in mind, we need to use a suitable reporting verb (said, told) to replace the quotation marks. Also, focus on the pronouns used for the subject and object.