Question

They said , we haven't been to the art gallery for a long time

Answer 1

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➠ They said that they hadn't been to the art gallery for a long time.

Answer 2

Answer:

The indirect speech sentence would be-

They said that they had not been to the art gallery for a long time.

Explanation:

• To depict what people said there are two unique kinds of speech i.e. direct speech(repeating speech) and Indirect (reported)speech.

• When we need to depict what somebody said, one choice is to repeat or to use direct narration. We utilize direct speech when we rehash what somebody exactly says, putting the expression between speech or quotation marks.

• But when we need to report what somebody said without quotation (" ") marks and without fundamentally utilizing the very same words, we can prefer backhanded or reported speech (likewise called indirect speech)

• Thus, as per the rules of changing narration, when the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech in the speech mark is in the present perfect tense, the indirect (reported) speech will get converted into the past perfect tense.

• Memory Capsule: Present Perfect Tense → Past Perfect Tense

Therefore the correct sentence in indirect speech narration would be written as-

They said that they had not been to the art gallery for a long time.

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[The above-asked question is incomplete. But most likely the complete question was-

They said, "we haven't been to the art gallery for a long time".

Change into indirect speech.]