Question

Teacher said to student "I will explain this problem tomorrow" Change into reported speech

Answer 1

Teacher told student that she would explain that problem the next day.

Answer 2

Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.

Example: Janice said,"I need more fabric." (Direct)

                Janice said that she needed more fabric. (Indirect)

In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence is contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.

Teacher said to the student,"I will explain this problem tomorrow." (Direct)

Teacher told the student that she would explain that problem the next day. (Indirect)