Select the correct indirect form of the sentence.
Miranda said to her teacher, “I was sick for a day.”

The correct indirect speech is (c).
Definition:
· Direct speech: Quoting exact words.
· Indirect speech: Reporting speech with necessary changes in tense, pronouns, and expressions of time.
Rules for conversion:
· Past simple (“was”) changes to past perfect (“had been”) in indirect speech.
· Pronoun “I” becomes “she”.
Example:
Direct: He said, “I was late.”
Indirect: He said that he had been late.