change it into indirect speech :-
1) you said, "he is a very good athlete".
2) I said, "I have finished my work".
3) he said, "her parents will pay a visit to Delhi".
4) the doctor said, "if the patient does not take medicine, he will not recover".
5) the headmaster said, " those who did not work hard, failed".
6) I said, "it may take him a year to make up his deficiency".
7) you said, "they were busy the whole day".
8) I said, "she was waiting for us at her uncle's house".
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1) you said, "he is a very good athlete".
- You said that he was a very good athlete.
2) I said, "I have finished my work".
- I said that I had finished my work.
3) He said, "her parents will pay a visit to Delhi".
- He said that her parents would pay a visit to Delhi.
4) The doctor said, "if the patient does not take medicine, he will not recover".
- The doctor said that if the patient did not take medicine he would not recover.
5) The headmaster said, " those who did not work hard, failed".
- The headmaster said that those who had not worked hard had failed.
6) I said, "it may take him a year to make up his deficiency".
- I said that it might take him a year to make up his deficiency.
7) You said, "they were busy the whole day".
- You said that they had been busy the whole day.
8) I said, "she was waiting for us at her uncle's house".
- I said that she had been waiting for us at her uncle's house.
★ Narration is the topic that deals with the study of expressing the idea of speaker.
What is direct speech and indirect speech ?
Direct speech :- In this case, we take the exact word of the speaker.
Example :- I said, " I am speaking the truth".
Indirect speech :- In this case, gives the substance of the speaker's actual words and not the exact words spoken by him or her.
Example :- I said that I was speaking the truth.
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Answer:
1 you told that he was a very good player.
2 I told that i have finished my work