Question

She said to me , " sita is writing a letter." change this sentence into indirect speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

sita said sita was writting a letter

Answer 2

She told me Sita was writing a letter.

Explanation:

• The given statement must be converted into indirect form of speech.
• When a statement is converted into reported form, the comma and quotation marks have to be removed.
• The words 'said to me' can be modified as 'told me'. In standard form of English, 'that' will not be used along with 'told'.
• The tense within quotations has to be changed into its past tense form. So the verbs take their past tense; which means 'is writing' becomes 'was writing'.
• If there are pronouns used inside quotes, then they have to be changed. But here we only have the proper noun 'Sita', which need not be changed.
• Therefore the answer will be: She told me Sita was writing a letter.