Choose the correct indirect narration of the sentence: She said, ‘The Earth revolves around the Sun.’

The correct indirect narration is She said that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

• This sentence expresses a universal truth or a scientific fact. A fundamental rule of indirect speech states that if the direct speech contains a universal truth, a scientific fact, or a habitual action, the tense of the verb in the reported speech does not change, regardless of the tense of the reporting verb.

Let's analyze the distractors:

• (A) 'She said that the Earth revolved around the Sun.' is incorrect because it changes the tense from present simple to past simple, implying it might no longer be true.
• (B) 'She said that the Earth had revolved around the Sun.' is incorrect as it uses the past perfect tense, which is inappropriate for a universal truth.
• (D) 'She said that the Earth is revolving around the Sun.' is incorrect as it changes the tense to present continuous, altering the meaning from a constant truth to an ongoing action.