Question

The boys said," we were playing cricket yesterday."(change the narration).​

Answer 1

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The boys said that they had been playing cricket the previous day.

Extra Information ↴

• Inverted commas are removed in the indirect-speech.
• Connective word 'that' is used in the beginning of the reported speech.
• Verb of the reported speech is changed according to the form and sense of the sentence.
• Persons of the reported speech are changed.
• Words showing nearness, time or place are changed.

According to the rules, we have to change the past continuous tense into past perfect continuous tense. 'Yesterday' is changed into 'the previous day'.

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