Question

Mother said,"Tea is ready."

Answer 1

Mother said that Tea was ready

Answer 2

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Mother said that Tea was ready.

Rules for Changing direct into Indirect speech :-

☆ We also make changes to tense, time referrants and pronouns when we report direct speech.

☆ Usually tenses move one step back except for modal.

☆ $\bold{I}$ become $\bold{she\:,\:he}$ etc. according to sentence.

☆ $\bold{today}$ become $\bold{that\: day}$ , $\bold{yesterday}$ becomes $\bold{the\: previous\:day}$ , $\bold{ago}$ become $\bold{before}$ and $\bold{this}$ becomes $\bold{that}$.

☆ The adjectives this/that becomes the determiner the. The adverb $\bold{here}$ becomes $\bold{there}$.