Question

"That's a rather rash decision",he said "I hope you've given it careful consideration"
Change the narration

Answer 1

Answer:

He said that that was a rather rash decision and further added he hoped he had given it careful consideration.

Explanation:

It was a statement direct speech; so we used the reporting verb 'said'. We use conjunction ‘that’ when we join the indirect speech with the reporting verb. First person pronoun ‘I’ was changed into third person pronoun ‘he’ as the subject was 'he'. Second person pronoun ‘you’ was changed into ‘him’ because the object was assumed as ‘him’. ‘have’ was changed into ‘had’ because the reporting verb was in the past tense; tense uniformity has to be maintained while changing direct speech into indirect speech.