Change the following sentence from Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.
“I always take a cup of green tea in the morning,” my father said to his friends.

Correct option is B

Correct indirect speech: (b) My father told his friends that he always took a cup of green tea in the morning.
Key changes (highlight):
• “said to” → told (because object is given: his friends)
• Pronoun: “I” → he (speaker = my father)
• Simple Present (“take”) usually backshifts to Simple Past (“took”) when reporting verb is past (“said”).
Grammatical Rule (English):
• said to + person → told + person
• Past reporting verb ⇒ present tense generally shifts to past (take → took).
व्याकरणिक नियम (Hindi):
• “said to” का indirect में रूप told होता है। Reporting verb past में होने पर tense सामान्यतः past में बदलता है (take → took) और pronoun speaker के अनुसार बदलता है (I → he)।
Why other options are incorrect:
• (a) word order गलत/awkward है।
• (c) Past Perfect (“had taken”) unnecessary here; meaning over-shifts.
• (d) tense wrong (“has been taking”) + form unnatural.
Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.