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Choose the correct indirect form of the following direct form of speech.He said to me, "I was running behind you"

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Choose the correct indirect form of the following direct form of speech.He said to me, "I was running behind you"

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ক. He told me that he was running behind me

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Assumptions: Options C and D are truncated/missing placeholders in the source dataset. | Option 1 is evaluated as the best choice among the provided meaningful options, noting that prescriptive grammar also accepts 'had been running'.

In indirect speech, the reporting verb phrase 'said to me' changes to 'told me' followed by the conjunction 'that'. The first-person pronoun 'I' refers to the speaker ('he'), and the second-person pronoun 'you' refers to the listener ('me'). Although prescriptive grammar often backshifts the past continuous 'was running' to the past perfect continuous 'had been running', retaining the past continuous ('was running') is common when the past action is viewed as a narrative background or in less formal usage. Between the available meaningful options, Option 1 ('He told me that he was running behind me') is grammatically well-formed, whereas Option 2 is ungrammatical because 'said' cannot take an indirect object without the preposition 'to' (*'said me'). Note that Options C and D are truncated placeholders in the source.

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