Question

I said , 'I have passed the examination'. Change it into indirect speech....​

Answer 1

Answer:

I said that I had passed the examination.

Answer 2

Answer:

I said that I had passed the examination.

Here, the word have turns to had because the given sentence is in its past continuous tense and it needs to be changed to past perfect tense to make it into indirect speech.

Rules for indirect speech:-

• Quotation marks need to be removed.
• The tense needs to be perfect. It cannot be indefinite or continuous.
• The subject of the sentence should not be changed.
• There should be more details about the action in the sentence

Other examples:-

• My boss said that there will be more salary next month onwards.
• I shouted by watching a live accident in the road.