iii) John said to the shopkeeper, "Is it your number?" I got a call from this number yesterday." (Change it into indirect speech)
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John said to the shopkeeper that it is his number because he got a call from that number the previous day.
John asked the shopkeeper if it was his number and that he had got a call from it the previous day.
Before changing anything in the sentence, you must identify the tense of the sentence. It is in simple past tense and so we must convert it to the past perfect tense by changing the verb form of 'got' to 'had got'.
Next, 'it' remains unchanged as third-person pronouns never change when converting direct to indirect speech or vice versa.
You change 'your' to 'his' as the second-person pronoun takes the form of the pronoun of the person being referred to.
You also change 'I' to 'he' as first-person pronouns are converted to the form of pronoun of the speaker.
You also remove the '?' and replace it with an appropriate conjunction so that the two separate sentences are combined and mentioned at once. We compensate the '?' by changing 'said to' to 'asked' as the sentence is inquisitive.
'This number' changes to 'it' as we are mentioning the referred-to object twice in the same sentence.
Finally, you change 'yesterday' to 'the previous day'.