A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. “If you had followed my advice, you would not be in this mess now,” she said angrily.
She angrily said that if I had followed her advice, I would not be in that mess then.
The reporting verb 'said' is in the past, and the reported words are joined with 'that'; 'angrily' stays with the reporting verb.
The words are an unreal (hypothetical) condition: 'had followed ... would not be'. Such unreal conditions keep their verb forms unchanged in indirect speech.
Pronouns change from the listener's point of view: 'you' becomes 'I' and 'my' becomes 'her'. Words of nearness change: 'this' becomes 'that' and 'now' becomes 'then'.
So: 'She angrily said that if I had followed her advice, I would not be in that mess then.'
The sentence with 'this mess now' keeps the words of nearness unchanged; 'if I followed' wrongly alters the condition and drops 'that' and the time word; 'would not have been' changes a present result into a past one.
Hence, She angrily said that if I had followed her advice, I would not be in that mess then.
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