Question

*I said to him, “I do not think you are working hard.” He said, “You are quite mistaken, I am working very hard.” Change into indirect speech.

Answer 1

Given:

I said to him, “I do not think you are working hard." He said, “You are quite mistaken, I am working very hard.”

What To Do:

We have to make the above sentences into indirect speech.

Required Answer:

I said to him that I hadn't thought he was working hard. He said that I was quite mistaken and he was working very hard.

Explanation:

Here,

• The inverted commas and the commas are omitted.
• The tenses are changed.
• The pronouns got converted.

Direct Speech:

Direct speech is that speech where a person says something is repeated by another person that to exactly.

Indirect Speech:

Indirect speech is that speech where a person says something is repeated by another person but not exactly.