Question

Read the conversation and rewrite the underlined sentences into Reported speech :
Ayesha : How are you Salma ?
Salma : I'm fine, thank you.
Ayesha : Did you see the film 'Takur'?
Salma : No, but I'm planning to see the film on Sunday.
Ayesha : It's fantastic. Don't miss it.
Salma : O.K.
Ayesha asked Salma if ......
Salma replied that ........
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Answer 1

If Salma had seen the film.

that she is planing to see that.

Answer 2

Ayesha asked Salma if she had seen the film ‘Takur’. Salma replied that she had not seen the film yet, but planning to watch it on Sunday.

One of the basic rule of changing a conversation that is in past tense into reported speech is by changing it into past perfect tense.

Apart from that the first person is converted into third person form in the reported speech. Reported speech is quite synonymous to indirect tense.