Question

The speaker said, “ We tried to control the prices last year,” convert into indirect ​

Answer 1

The prices were tried to control last year.

Answer 2

Answer:

The speaker said that they had tried to control the prices the year before.

Explanation:

When the given sentence is direct speech sentence while converting into indirect speech do the following changes-

• first identify the reported verb if it is said keep it as it is.
• if it is said to convert into told.
• use that as a conjunction.
• identify the tense of the quotation sentence.
• if it is simple past tense we should convert into past perfect tense.
• do the changes in pronoun according to the subject.