Question

Convert the following sentence to indirect speech :-
"You are not working hard," he said.

Answer 1

The indirect speech form of the given sentence is:

He said to me that I was not working hard.

• in indirect speech, there are no direct phrases or inverted commas.
• in direct speech, the message is conveyed by the speaker in his own words.
• in indirect speech, the message is conveyed from a third-person point of view
• present tense in the direct speech is converted to past tense in indirect speech.
• "are" becomes "was".
• the second person in the speech changes according to the object of the reporting speech.
• " you" became "me".
• the person to whom the sentence is pointed at has to be mentioned at the beginning. (He said to me)

Answer 2

Answer:

he said that I am not working hard