Question

He said,'the river is too shallow'.

Answer 1

Given sentence

He said, "The River is Too shallow."

To convert the sentence to its indirect form.


While converting to indirect speech,

» The inverted commas are replaced with 'that'

» If Reporting verb is said to, then it is chnyto told. If the reporting verb is in present tense (says/says) or in future tense, (will say) then the tense inside the reported speech won't change.

» The tense inside the reported speech changes to its respective past form. Moreover, Simple Past changes to past perfect and past continuous changes to past perfect continuous

» The tense in reported speech also doesn't chnages if the sentence is habitual fact or universal truth.


Hence your answer is :-

He said that the river was too shallow.