Question

Rajan said to him," I returned your book yesterday."

Answer 1

$\huge\pink{\mathfrak{direct - indirect \: speech}}$

Answer : Rajan told him that he had returned his book the previous day .

More to know :

❇️ Convey the message given by the first person to the third person is termed as indirect speech.

❇️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.

Some words alter in indirect speech in the following way :

✨ Now - Then

✨ Today - That day

✨Last night - previous night

✨ Said - Told

✨ Will be - would be

✨Tomorrow - The next day

✨ Yesterday - The previous day .