Indirect form of the sentence is:He said to me, "What a stupid fellow you are!"
Correct answer: C. He exclaimed that what a stupid fellow I was
- A. He exclaimed that I was very stupid fellow
- B. He told me that you were a stupid fellow
- C. He exclaimed that what a stupid fellow I was
- D. He did tell me that I had been a stupid fellow
Explanation
Option (c), "He exclaimed that what a stupid fellow I was," is the correct choice. It maintains the exclamatory tone of the original statement and properly changes the pronoun "you" to "I" while using the past tense "was" to reflect the shift from direct to indirect speech
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