Question

Rewrite the following sentences as indirect speech: a. She says, “He is Mrs. Kothari’s grandson”. b. “I was playing cricket”, Nelson said.

Answer 1

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(a) She says that he is Mrs. Kothari's grandson.

(b) Nelson said that he had been playing cricket.

Explanation ↴

(a) If the verb introducing direct speech is in the present tense, the tense of the verb in the reported speech does not change.

(b) According to the rule, we have to change the past continuous tense into past perfect continuous tense when we are going to change the speech into Indirect.