Change the following passage into indirect speech:
Quesion:the old man said,''My sons listen to me.A great treasure lies hidden in the land. I am going to leave it to you.'' ''How'll we find it?'' said the son.' your must dig the land for it. ''said the old man.
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The given sentence is a statement.
According to the rules of narration and reporting, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb is changed into its corresponding past form. The reporting verb in the given sentence, 'said', is in the past form. Therefore, the reported verb, 'cannot' will change into 'could not'. The first person pronoun 'I' will change to third person 'he'.
Thus, in indirect speech the sentence must be,
He said that he could not help me at present because he was himself in difficulty.
Thus option B is the correct answer.
Options A,B,D are incorrect as they do not follow the rules of Narration and Reporting.
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