Q:

Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.

Our Principal says, “Rules are to be followed at any cost.”

• 1
  Our Principal advised that rules need to be followed at any cost.
• 2
  Our Principal says that rules are to be followed at any cost.
• 3
  Our Principal told that rules are to be followed at any cost.
• 4
  Our Principal said that rules had to be followed at any cost