He said, “She was here yesterday”. Change the sentence into Indirect Speech
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Lucifer
In indirect speech, we remove the comma after Reporting Verb and also the inverted commas of Reported Speech. In addition, as reporting verb is in Past tense, the Reported Speech will be changed from past indefinite to past perfect tense.
Here will be changed into there and Yesterday into the day before.
Thus the indirect speech for this sentence will be He said that she had been there the day before.
Justin Velankanni
He said that she has been here the day before
Justin Velankanni
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Aashish Pahwa
He said that she was there the day before