Question

He said, "She is not making the phone call." change into indirect narration​

Answer 1

Change into indirect narration​ .

Explanation:

• Direct Speech: He said, "She is not making the phone call."

        Indirect Speech: He said that she was not making the phone call.

• The given is sentence is in the form of present continuous tense.

• According to the rule of  changing direct speech to indirect speech,

• The inverted commas are removed,

• 'said' is changed to 'that.'

• 'She is' is changed to 'She was.'

• Therefore, the correct sentence is "He said that she was not making the phone call."

Answer 2

He said, "She is not making the phone call." change into indirect narration

Answer:

• He said that she was not making the phone call.

Explanation :

• 'Narration change' means to say the same narration indirectly.
• Here the direct speech is :He said, "She is not making the phone call" and it is said to change into indirect narration or indirect speech.
• In the given sentence reporting verb is 'he said' and reported speech is " She is not making the phone call", reported speech is always kept in inverted comma( "..."). There will be a comma (,)after reporting verb. Example: He said, ...
• The mentioned reporting verb in the speech has been written in past tense but the reported speech has been written in present continuous tense so after narration change the verb of reported speech has been changed into past tense.
• That is used after 'reporting verb' instead of comma (,)