Question

Change the following sentences from direct to indirect speech.
1. She said, "I'll be using the car next Friday.”
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2. She said, "He has finished his food“.

Answer 1

Answer:

She said that she would be using the car next Friday.

She said that He has finished his food.

Answer 2

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1. She said, "I'll be using the car next Friday.”

She told that she would be using the care next Friday.

2. She said, "He has finished his food“.

She told that she had finished the food.

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Conveying the message given by the first person to the third person is termed as indirect speech.

⟹ The person who conveys is the second person to whom the first person told the compliment or a sentence.

⟹ Indirect speech is a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.

Words of direct speech will turn to indirect in the following way :

• Now - Then

• Today - That day

• Last night - previous night

• Said - Told

• Will be - would be