Question

Raju said,"He is a good player"( change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

Raju said that he was a good player....

Answer 2

The answer is as follows:

Raju said that he was a good player.

Direct and Indirect Speech

• The statement spoken directly by the speaker is direct speech.

• The speech that is reported by someone else is known as the indirect speech or the reported speech.

• As the reporting verb is given in the simple past tense, 'is' changes to 'was' in the indirect speech.

• The comma is replaced by 'that.'

• Since the subject is Raju himself, the pronoun remains the same.