She said, "I bought this car yesterday". Change into indirect speech
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she said that she had bought that car the previous day
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The indirect narration for the given sentence would be-
She said that she had bought that car the previous day.
Explanation:
- When the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech(repeating speech) is in the past indefinite tense, then the indirect or inactive (reported) speech will change into the past perfect tense.
Rules to follow during conversion into indirect narration:
- Reporting verb i.e. Say/Said is changed to ask/asked/wonder/wondered/enquire of/enquired of, suggested, advised etc. as per the meaning of the sentence.
- Speech signs or quotation marks (" ") are removed.
- The words such as "this", "these", "tomorrow", and "yesterday" gets converted to that, those, the next day, and the previous day respectively.
- Simple past tense changes to past perfect tense and Past Indefinite Tense changes to Past Perfect Tense.
- First-person pronoun changes according to the subject of reported speech.
Hence following the above-mentioned rules, the correct form of indirect(reported speech narration) for the given sentence would be-
She said that she had bought that car the previous day.
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