Question

Tap the option that correctly completes the sentence in reported speech.
Direct speech: The man said to his nephew, ‘You must learn how to cook.’
Reported speech: The man told his nephew _____________________.

Answer 1

The completed sentence is, ‘The man told his nephew that he must learn how to cook.’ The pronoun changes from ‘you’ in direct speech to ‘he’ in reported speech because the speaker ‘the man’ is talking to his nephew, who is of the masculine gender.