Question

I said, "my mother is my best friend"

Answer 1

I said that my brother is my best friend.

Additional information:-

An action or information can be expressed in sentence.

In English the sentence are direct or indirect.

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The actual words of the speaker with punctuation is called Direct speech.

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The meaning of the sentence of the speakers words is called Indirect speech.

Note:-

When the sentence is universal fact then the sentence is unchanged.

Ex:- The sun rises in the east.

Rules for Changing direct into Indirect speech:-

❇️The inverted commas are ommitted in the Indirect speech.

❇️The tense of the reporting verb should never be changed.

❇️we use linker before the Indirect speech.

❇️The first letter with inverted commas will not remind capital in indirect speech .

❇️The pronoun should be Changed according to sense of speech.

Answer 2

answer :

I said that my mother was my best friend

explanation :

In this case my own words that i had said in past, is being again reported to another person by myself. Hence there is no change in the pronoun. And assertive sentence in present tense is converted into past tense