Question

Change she said, "The patient died in the hospital. "Into indirect form

Answer 1

She said that the patient has died in the hospital.

Answer 2

The indirect form of the sentence she said, "The patient died in the hospital." will be

She told that The patient had died in the hospital.

The rules of transforming a direct speech into an indirect speech are :

• 'Said' changes to told, 'asked' changes to questioned and so on.
• The tense of the sentence included in the quotation changes accordingly.
• Here, simple past tense changes to past perfect tense.
• The change of tense occurs only when the reporting verb is in past tense.
• The change of tense does not occur when the reporting verb is in present tense.

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