Question

her father told me that honesty was the best policy

Answer 1

Answer:

Here the reporting verb is in the present tense ‘SAYS’ thus there is no need to change the tense of the reported speech.

Secondly, the reported speech states a general fact so the tense remains unchanged.

All you need to do is to remove the inverted commas by using ‘that'

The sentence in the indirect speech will be:

Her father says that honesty is the best policy.