Question

He said, "Mary came at night."
change into indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

He said that Mary came at night.

Explanation:

=> This is the transformation of the sentence from Direct speech to Indirect speech.

Whenever a sentence is in a direct speech then we have to write it as a reported form with the word starting with 'that'.

We must keep it in past tense, as the verb in the question is 'said' which is a past tense.

❖ Extra information :

Reported speech is when we tell someone what another person said. To do this, we can use direct speech or indirect speech

Direct speech : Direct speech quotes, the exact words spoken. When we use direct speech in writing, we place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ... ") and there is no change in these words.

Indirect speech : Indirect speech is speech which tells you what someone said, but does not use the person's actual words

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