Question

John said if you leave the door of the cage open the bird will fly out

Answer 1

John told me that if I had left the door of the cage open the bird would fly out.

Explanation:

• John said, "if you leave the door of the cage open the bird will fly out".
• This is an example of a direct speech sentence in which the exact words of the narrator are quoted in inverted commas.
• To convert it into indirect speech, the exact words are not reported into comas.