Explanation

• In reported speech, past simple changes to past perfect.
• “I visited” becomes “she had visited”.
• “Yesterday” changes to “the previous day”.
• Direct and Indirect Speech rules are applied here.
• Subject “I” changes to “she” according to reporting verb.

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Explanation

• In reported speech, “my” changes to “her”.
• Present continuous “are going” changes to past continuous “were going”.
• Direct and Indirect Speech rules apply here.
• “She said” remains unchanged.
• Therefore, correct sentence uses her + were going.

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Explanation

• He said that Honesty is the best policy.
• This sentence expresses a universal truth.
• In indirect speech, universal truths do not change tense.
• Only quotation marks are removed and “that” is added.
• The meaning remains exactly the same.

Last verified on 20-04-2026

Explanation

A mother told her son not to play in the sunshine and to sit under the tree shade. 

• Indirect speech reports what someone said without quoting them directly.
• The infinitive form (“not to play,” “to sit”) is used in reported commands or advice.

Explanation

Direct: She says, “She was playing.”

Indirect: She says that she was playing.

The reporting verb “says” is in present tense, so the tense of the reported speech does not change.

The pronoun “she” remains the same (assuming it refers to the same person).