Question

the old lady said to her daughter, "today I am preparing a clay model for you"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The old lady told her daughter that she was preparing a clay model for her ,that day.

Answer 2

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✿ Change into indirect speech.

☛ The old lady said to her daughter, "today I am preparing a clay model for you"

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☛ The old lady told her daughter that she was preparing a clay model for her that day.

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✿Rememeber...

• Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop.
• If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense. If it is in the simple past tense, change it into the past perfect tense.
• When the verb inside the quotation marks expresses a universal truth, we do not normally change it into the past tense.

✿Note:

• When the reporting verb is in a present or future tense, we do not change the tense of the verb inside the quotation marks.
• Direct speech: She says, ‘I will come.’
• Indirect speech: She says that she will come.

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