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Direct Speech: "I have already finished my assignment," she said.Which of the following options represents the indirect speech transformation of the given sentence?She said that she has already finished her assignment.She said that she had already finished her assignment.She says that she had already finished her assignment.She says that she has already finished her assignment.

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Direct Speech: "I have already finished my assignment," she said.Which of the following options represents the indirect speech transformation of the given sentence?She said that she has already finished her assignment.She said that she had already finished her assignment.She says that she had already finished her assignment.She says that she has already finished her assignment.

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The correct transformation of the given sentence into indirect speech is: "She said that she had already finished her assignment." This is because in reported speech, we usually shift the tenses back. Here, "have finished" (present perfect) changes to "had finished" (past perfect).

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