They said, “ We were living in Paris.”

  • They said they would have lived in Paris.
  • They told me they had lived in Paris.
  • They told me that they had been living in Paris.
  • They said they might have been living in Paris.
  • Explanation:

    The standard and the correct reported speech form of the sentence is (C). The first person “We” is rightly changed to the third person “They” and the past tense “were is turned into past perfect tense. Therefore the sentence © is accepted as the only correct option. Other options deviate from grammatical rules.


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