Correct option is C
The correct indirect form of the sentence is (c) "I told Prachi that I had visited Maldives the previous week." This maintains the correct tense shift from direct to indirect speech.
Rules for converting direct speech to indirect speech-
· When the reporting verb of direct speech is in past tense then all the present tenses are changed to the corresponding past tense in indirect speech.
· In indirect speech, tenses
do not change if the words used within the quotes (‘’) talk of a habitual action or universal truth.
· The
tenses of direct speech do not change if the reporting verb is in the
future tense or
present tense.
· Reporting verbs such as ‘said/ said to’ changes to said, told.
· Comma inverted comma will be replaced with conjunction “That”.
· The
first person in direct speech
changes as per the subject of the speech.
· The
second person of direct speech
changes as per the object of reporting speech.
· The
third person of direct speech
doesn’t change.
· “Last week” changes to “the previous week”.