Question

In the questions below, the sentences have been given in Direct/Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
She said to her friend, "I know where everyone is."

• A. She told that she knew where was everyone.
• B. She told her friend that she knew where was everyone.
• C. She told her friend that she knew where is everyone.
• D. She told her friend that she knows where was everyone.

Hint:

When converting Direct Speech to Indirect Speech, pay attention to changes in verb tenses and word order.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Two changes are required when this direct-speech sentence is reported: keeping "her friend" as the object of "told," and shifting both verbs, "know" and "is," one step into the past since "said" itself is past tense.
Option (A) drops "her friend" even though its tense shift is otherwise fine.
Option (C) keeps "her friend" but leaves "is" unshifted.
Option (D) keeps "her friend" and shifts "is" to "was," but leaves "know" as "knows" instead of "knew."
Only option (B), "She told her friend that she knew where was everyone," gets both the addressee and the full tense shift right.
So the correct answer is She told her friend that she knew where was everyone.

Answer 2

Treating this as a two-item checklist, addressee present and both verbs correctly backshifted, and scoring each option against it makes the comparison explicit rather than descriptive.

1. She told that she knew where was everyone: Scores a pass on tense shifting but a fail on the addressee, since "her friend" has been omitted from the sentence entirely.
2. She told her friend that she knew where was everyone: Scores a pass on both counts, since the addressee is present and both "know" and "is" have been correctly shifted to their past forms.
3. She told her friend that she knew where is everyone: Scores a pass on the addressee and on shifting "know," but a fail on shifting "is," which remains in the present tense.
4. She told her friend that she knows where was everyone: Scores a pass on the addressee and on shifting "is," but a fail on "know," which is left unshifted as "knows."

Running this two-point check across all four options shows that only one clears both requirements at once.

Therefore, the correct answer is She told her friend that she knew where was everyone.