Question

(a) "I have joined the minister's personal staff" said Ms Mattoo. (Change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

indirect speech:- Ms Mattoo said that he had joined the minister's personal staff.

Answer 2

Answer:

Direct speeches are used to express conversations while indirect speeches are used to express or tell something which someone had did or said i.e., expressed from a third person's point of view.

Here, it is changed to

"Ms Mattoo said that she had joined the Minister's personal Staff".

In indirect speeches, present form of verb have always changed to past form because it is expressed to a third person of something which happened earlier.