Multiple choice

Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence in indirect narration.

The teacher said to the boy, “What a foolish boy you are!” The teacher :

  1. told to the boy that he was very foolish

  2. exclaimed with wonder that he was a very foolish boy

  3. shouted that he was a very foolish boy

  4. said to the boy that he was very foolish
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Exclamatory sentences starting with 'What a' are reported using 'exclaimed' and the adjective is intensified with 'very'. The tense of the verb 'are' changes to the past tense 'was' to reflect the shift in time.

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