Change Into Indirect Speech Examples. He said that his mother was writing letter. So you don t need to change the tense of the sentence inside the quotation.
He said he bought a car. Clinton said that he was very busy then. In the above example the pronoun i is changed to pronoun he in indirect speech.
He said that his mother was writing letter.
If the reporting verb is in the present or future tenses the tense of verb in the reported speech is not changed at all while changing from direct speech to indirect speech i e. 2 direct he says john painted a picture. Insert quotation marks question mark exclamation and full stop as per the mood of the sentence. He said that he will be watching a new tv series.
