Question

18. Rewrite using indirect speech.
She said, "I have won the first prize."
Fill in the blanks with suitable tense form.​

Answer 1

The sentence can be written in indirect speech as follows:

She said that she had won the first prize.

What is indirect speech?

• In indirect speech, we use our own words to report what another person has said.

• To convert a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech, we remove the quotation marks or inverted commas.
• If the tense of the verb inside the quotation marks is in the present perfect tense like above, then we change it into the past perfect tense.

Answer 2

Explanation:

She said that she had won the prize.