Question

the shopkeeper said to the lady ,'you can choose the items you need.' convert into indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

the shopkeeper told the lady that she could choose the items she needed

Explanation:

Answer 2

The shopkeeper told the lady that she could choose those items that she needed.

Explanation:

• The above-mentioned sentence is in direct speech and while changing it in an indirect speech the rules of Narration change are being applied here.
• As we know, if the verb in reported speech is in past tense, then the reported speech would also be in the same tense, according to the rules.
• In this sentence ‘said to’ indicates past tense so while converting the sentence ‘can’ became ‘could’ in past tense and ‘need’ became ‘needed’.