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He said, “They can swim across the river.” Change into Indirect Speech

He said, “They can swim across the river.” Change into Indirect Speech

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  1. Indirect Speech: He said that they could swim across the river.

    Explanation: If the reporting verb is in the past tense, then the modals like can changes to could, may changes to might, will/shall change to would, have to changes to had to etc.

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