Question

I said to him, "you have bought the book". change to indiect speech

Answer 1

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I said to him, "you have bought the book". (change to indiect speech)

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I told him that he had bought the book.

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• To change direct speech into indirect speech in present perfect tense, we need to change pronoun , add linker 'that' and change the verb into past perfect tense.

• In case of this sentence, 'that' is added as a linker , 'had' is used instead of 'have' and 'he' is used as pronoun instead of ' you'.

Answer 2

Direct : I said to him, "you have bought the book".

Indirect : I told him that he had bought the book

Additional Information :

❇The person who conveys is the second person to whom the first person told the compliment or a sentence .

✴ Indirect speech is a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.

▪️In direct speech, we use the actual words of the speaker which are enclosed within the inverted commas placed at the beginning and at the end We use introductory verbs in direct speech to introduce the speaker's words.