Directions: Select the option that is the direct form of the given sentence. Nidhi exclaimed that it was a beautiful painting.

Explanation

The correct answer is Nidhi exclaimed, “What a beautiful painting!” Key Points Rules for Changing Exclamatory Sentences into Indirect Speech The sentences containing sudden expressions of joy, sorrow, anger, applause, surprise, or contempt are called exclamatory sentences. We replace the Reporting verb with ‘exclaimed with joy,’ ‘exclaimed with sorrow’, ‘exclaimed with surprise’ etc according to the sense of the Reported speech. The conjunction ‘that’ is used. Let's see the examples- Nidhi said, "Wow! that's beautiful". (Direct speech) Nidhi exclaimed with joy that it was beautiful. (Indirect speech) Similarly, the given sentence is in 'Indirect speech' and we need to make this sentence into a direct speech. So by applying these rules we get option 2.