Question

He said ,"I am a football player" Change into Indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

He said that he was a football player.

Answer 2

Question :

He said ,"I am a football player".

Change into Indirect speech.

Answer :

He said that he was a football player.

The rules to change a direct speech into an indirect speech are as follows :

• The comma and the double quotations are omitted.

• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation does not change if the reported verb is in present tense.

• The tense of the sentence inside the quotation changes accordingly if the reported verb is in past tense.

• Here , the reported verb is in simple past tense, therefore the tense of the sentence inside quotation changes from Simple Present to Simple Past.

• Direct speech is a sentence in which the exact words spoken are reproduced in speech marks (also known as quotation marks or inverted commas).

• In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it.

• ' I ' becomes 'He'.
• 'Am' becomes 'was'.

• Hence, the final answer is : He said that he was a football player.

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