Question

Mohan said to me,"I will comeifI can."

Answer 1

Here we have to keep in mind three important points while changing direct speech into indirect speech. These are:

In an indirect speech the pronoun changes according to the speaker whether s/he is referring himself/herself or a third person.


In a statement speech, we will use ‘that’ before the reported statement and the reported verb will be ‘told’ (followed by an object) or ‘said’ (will not be followed by an object).

Usually, the present changes to past tense while we change direct speech to indirect.  

Mohan told me that he would come if he could.