Question

"I can't drive a lorry," he said change into indirect speech ​

Answer 1

He said that he couldn't drive a lorry

Answer 2

The answer is as follows:

He said that he couldn't drive a lorry.

Narration

• Direct speech refers to the speech given directly by the speaker.

• Indirect speech refers to the reported speech.

• In the given sentence, the reporting verb is in the simple past tense. Therefore, the subordinate verb changes to past tense in the indirect speech.

• 'I' changes to 'he' since the subject is 'he.'

• The comma is replaced by 'that.'