Question

You said to me,"I am your familiar friend".

Change into indirect speech of Assertive sentence.​

Answer 1

Answer:

You said that he is mine familiar friend

Answer 2

You said to me that you were my familiar friend. -This is the indirect form of the sentence given.

Explanation:

• When a sentence is changed into reported speech, the comma and quotation marks are removed.
• As it is reported, we use 'said to me that'.
• The person within the quotation marks will be changed accordingly.
• We have 'I' within quotation. 'You' is the speaker. 'Me' is the person spoken to. Therefore in reported speech 'I' becomes 'you' and 'your' becomes 'my'.
• The tense must be changed into past tense. Therefore the verb 'am' becomes 'were'. 'I am' becomes 'you were' in indirect speech.
• Therefore the indirect speech of the given Assertive sentence is: You said to me that you were my familiar friend.