Question
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech. "Be careful while crossing the road," the mother told her child.
Solution
The reported verb should be ‘warned’ as crossing road can be risky. In the reported speech neither an assertion is being made nor a question being asked and nor something is being suggested.
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