Question

covert into indirect speech. He said, ‘I am leaving for Delhi.’

Answer 1

Answer:

he said that he will leave for Delhi

Answer 2

The indirect speech would be, 'He said that he was leaving for Delhi.'

• The indirect speech will change to the past continuous tense when the reporting verb is in the past and the direct speech is in the present continuous tense.
• Indirect speech is speech that tells you what someone said without using their actual words, i.e. reporting the speaker's meaning in our own terms.
• Reporting verbs, modals, time, place, pronouns, tenses, and other elements are all taken into account when converting a direct speech sentence to indirect speech.