Question

"The case is not over, my friend ,"poirot said to Hastings.

Answer 1

Here is the correct answer:

Poriot told Hastings, his friend that the case was not over.

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.

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