Question

Tom says," Harry is my best friend". change into indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer

Tom says that Harry is his best friend.

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Explanation

While changing to indirect tense, we change the tense of the reported speech, BUT if the reporting verb is in present tense or future tense, then neither the tense of reporting speech nor the reporting verb changes.

Hence, here the tense is not changed.

However, if the reporting verb is "said" or something, the tense changes correspondingly.

The double inverted commas are replaced with 'that' or 'to' (in case of imperative sentences)

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Change in tense from direct to indirect speech :

• Present Indefinite tense → Past Indefinite tense
• Present continuous → Past continuous
• Present perfect → Past perfect
• Present perfect continuous → Past perfect continuous
• Past indefinite → Past perfect
• Past continuous → Past perfect continuous

The tense of past perfect and past perfect continuous remains unchanged.