Question

the young man told me that he had come from jorhat to work in guwahati.narration

Answer 1

The young man said to me,"I have come from Jorhat to work in Guwahati."

Answer 2

The young man said to me, “I have come from Jorhat to work in Guwahati.”

EXPLANATION:

In a direct speech, the speaker conveys the information word by word as told by the original speaker. ‘Direct speech’ refers to the exact quoting of a sentence or a statement as it was said in the first time.  

Indirect narration involves reporting it in the own words of the speaker and doesn’t require word to word quotation. The above sentence was reported in the ‘direct speech’ and the he was thus changed to I.