Hari said to Mohan ",honesty is the best policy. (Indirect speech)
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Hari told Mohan that honesty is the best policy.
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Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.
Example: Jake said,"What is he doing?" (Direct)
Jake asked what he was doing. (Indirect)
In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.
Hari said to Mohan,"Honesty is the best policy." (Direct)
Hari told Mohan that honesty was the best policy. (Indirect)