He said, “She was here yesterday”. Change the sentence into Indirect Speech
He said, “She was here yesterday”. Change the sentence into Indirect Speech
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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.
He said that she has been here the day before
“I saw him today”, she said. She said that she had seen him that day.
“I’ll see you tomorrow”, he said He said that he would see me the next day.
He said, “I live here”. He told me he lived there
“I’m getting a new car this week”, she said. She said she was getting a new car that week
“I was on holiday last week”, he told us. He told us that he had been on holiday the previous week
‘the train arrived at 3:15’ , she said — she said that train has arrived at 3:15
He said that she was there the day before
Indirect Speech: He said that she was there the previous day.
Indirect Speech: He said that she had been there the previous day.
Explanation: The reporting verb is in past and the reported speech is in the past continuous tense. So we change the sentence into past perfect continuous tense.
Indirect Speech: He said that she was there the previous day.