Question

Gowtham said to me,"i was very ill last week but i am better now".change it indirect speech

Answer 1

Answer:

Gotham told me that he had been very ill the previous week but he was better then.

We have to change the narration according to the past tense.

Explanation:

In the below explanation, we are sharing how tense changes into Indirect speech:

• Direct Speech: Past simple (Subject + V2 + Object)
• Indirect Speech: Past perfect (Subject + had + V3 + Object)
• Example: They told, “We were living in Italy."

       They told that they had been living in Italy.

• Apparently, in the above-mentioned sentence 'said' and 'was' represents past tense. Thus, 'was' will be converted to 'had + been' and 'is' would be replaced by 'was'.
• Furthermore, 'last week' will be converted to 'the previous week', 'I am' would be changed to 'he was' and 'now' would be replaced by 'then'.

Hence, the indirect speech is: Gotham told me that he had been very ill the previous week but he was better then.