Question

He said, "I am glad they are strong".(into indirect speech)

Answer 1

He said that he was glad that they were strong

Answer 2

The given sentence can be changed into indirect speech as shown below:

He said that he was glad they were strong.

Explanation

This sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:

1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'

2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.

3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.