Question

she said ,"she missed the train." change in indirect speech​

Answer 1

Topic - Narration Change

Answer: She said that she had missed the train.

Explanation:

• The Tense of the Reporting Verb is Past Indefinite Tense and the Tense of the Reported Speech is Past Indefinite Tense.
• We will convert the Direct Speech into Indirect Speech, simply by converting their Tenses. The Tense of the Reported Speech will change into Past Perfect Tense.
• The sentence is Declarative Sentence and thus we will join them using the conjunction 'that'.

Answer 2

Here is the correct answer:

She said that she had missed the train.

Explanation

This sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:

1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'

2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.  (Simple Past is changed into Past Perfect)

3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.