Question

Change to indirect speech
My friend said,"I will have finished my homework by the time you arrive."

Answer 1

My friend said that he would have finished his homework by the time I arrived.

Answer 2

My friend said that he would have finished his homework by the time I arrived.

About indirect speech:

• The sentence that is given in direct speech must be changed into indirect speech.
• When a sentence is changed into indirect speech, the comma and quotation marks must be removed and we must add 'that' after 'said'.
• The entire sentence is converted into its past tense. That is the verbs take the past tense form.
• So the verb 'will have finished' becomes 'would have finished' and 'arrive' becomes 'arrived'.
• The person within the quotation marks must be changed in reported form accordingly. So 'I' becomes 'he/she', 'my' becomes 'his/her' and as there is no listener, we can introduce a pronoun (I/ he/ she) in the place of 'you'.
• Therefore the answer is: My friend said that he would have finished his homework by the time I arrived.