Select the correctly reported form of the sentence: "Rita said, 'Had I known the facts, I would have acted differently.'"
Rita said that had she known the facts, she would have acted differently.
The direct sentence is a third conditional using inverted "Had I known," which expresses an unreal situation in the past along with its unreal past result "would have acted."
When reported, the pronoun "I" changes to "she" to match the subject, and the third conditional structure, including the inverted "had" clause and "would have acted," is preserved exactly as it does not shift with tense in reported speech.
The other options incorrectly change the conditional's tense, remove the conditional meaning altogether, or fail to change the pronoun "I" to "she."
Therefore, the correctly reported sentence is "Rita said that had she known the facts, she would have acted differently."
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