Question

the prince said, "it gives me a great pleasure to be here this evening. "

Answer 1

To reported speech?

Here:

The prince said that (pause) that gave him a great pleasure to be there that evening.

Answer 2

The prince said that it gave him great pleasure to be there that evening.

In the above sentence, we have been provided a sentence that is in direct speech. It has been changed to indirect speech in the solution that has been provided.

Certain points should be kept in mind while making these conversions. They are as follows-

1. All quotations should be completely removed.
2. The tone of speech must be understood and the proper verb should be used. For example, a teacher while talking to the whole class generally announces something.
3. There should be a change in the tense. The message should be in past tense or forms of past tense.
4. The meaning of the sentence should not be changed.