make passive ( indirect imperative) : 1: the doctor advised me to quit smoking. 2: she has requsted me to lend her some money. 3: my father told me to do my best. 4: the manager ordered the peon to clean office. 5: the commander commanded the soldiers to ruin the enemy. 6: he has warned me not to sell my property. 7: the teacher told the students not to cheat. 8: the teacher forbade the student to cheat. 9: my brother urged me to read the gita. 10: he theartened me not to disclose the secret.
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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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