Question

Transform into reported speech 1 "He likes walking" she says.

Answer 1

1 She says that he likes walking.

Answer 2

To transform the sentence "He likes walking" into reported speech, we need to change the verb tense and the pronouns to match the reporting verb and the reported speaker. Here's the transformation:

The reporting verb in this case is "she says," so we need to change the sentence to match the reported speech. Here's the transformation:

She says that he likes walking.

In reported speech, we usually change the tense of the verb. In this case, "likes" is in the present simple tense. When we report someone's words, we usually move the verb tense back one tense. So, "likes" changes to "liked" in the reported speech.

She says that he liked walking.

Additionally, we need to change the pronoun "he" to match the reported speaker. If the reported speaker is different from the reporting speaker, we usually change the pronoun accordingly. In this case, we don't have any information about the reported speaker, so we keep the pronoun "he" the same.

Therefore, the transformed sentence in reported speech is:

She says that he liked walking.

In reported speech, we use reporting verbs such as "say," "tell," "ask," etc. to indicate that someone is reporting someone else's words. The reported speech is usually introduced by a conjunction such as "that" or "if."