Question

You: I visited London last week.
Charlie: you'll come and occupy my flat if you're in London.
This is the conversation between Charlie and You yesterday.
Later that day you tell another friend about what Charlie said.
Use reported Speech:
A) He said that he could come and stay
B) He said that I can come and occupy his flat if i used to be ever in London
C) He said that I could come and occupy his flat if i used to be ever in London
D) He said that I can come and stayed at his flat if i used to be ever in London

Answer 1

Hint: Reported speech is usually used to talk about the past, normally change the tense of the words spoken. For example: We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words.

Complete step by step answer:
Option A) He said that he could come and stay – is an incorrect answer because ‘he said that he could come and stay’ where in reported speech instead of ‘he’ I should be used. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) He said that I can come and occupy his flat if i used to be ever in London – is an incorrect answer because ‘can’ changes to ‘could’ and in this option can is not changed. Thus, this is not reported speed and an incorrect answer.
Option C) He said that I could come and occupy his flat if i used to be ever in London – is the correct answer because ‘can' changes to 'could'. If there's present in direct speech, then tense of indirect speech won't change. 'Are' is used in simple present tense thus it will change to 'was/were' according to the pronoun. Indirect speech would be - He said I could come and occupy his flat if i used to be ever in London. Thus, this is the correct answer.
Option D) He said that I can come and stay at his flat if I was ever in London – is an incorrect answer because ‘can’ changes to ‘could’ and in this option can is not changed. Thus, this is not reported speed and an incorrect answer.
You: I visited London last week.
Charlie: you'll come and occupy my flat if you're in London.
So, the reported speech is ‘He said that I could come and stay at his flat if I was ever in London’. (Option C)
So, the correct answer is “Option C”.

Note:
Reported speech is also known as indirect speech. When changing from direct to indirect speech, you would like to vary the grammar in certain ways. Verb forms usually need to change. Tenses also changes like Present Simple Tense into Past Simple Tense, Present Continuous Tense into Past Continuous Tense, Present Perfect Tense into Past Perfect Tense, Past Simple Tense into Past Perfect Tense and will into would, can into could, will be into would be and so on. So, for this question Option C satisfies the rule of reported speech and is the most appropriate answer as compared to other options.