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I m confused in these sentences..

DIRECT : He said " i have written a letter "
INDIRECT : He said that he had written a letter.(*)

DIRECT : He said " i had written a written a letter "
INDIRECT " He said that he had written a letter . (*)

How can they both have a same indirect form, if they have, than how we can convert this indirect into direct ?
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At times we have to face this sort of perplexing sentences. The way out is that you may change it from direct to indirect as you have converted it in your post. But when you will be converting it back to direct sentence then you may go for the first option, second one is also ok but first one is the most relevant. The most preferable direct sentence would be He said " i have written a letter "

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I m confused in these sentences..

DIRECT : He said " i have written a letter "
INDIRECT : He said that he had written a letter.(*)

DIRECT : He said " i had written a written a letter "
INDIRECT " He said that he had written a letter . (*)

How can they both have a same indirect form, if they have, than how we can convert this indirect into direct ?
Dont be confused for Direct and Indirect, its the rule for conversion of Voice that whenever Reported speech is in Present Perfect, Past Indefinite or Past Perfect it will be converted into the same sentences as you written above.

Because the conversion of above three is same according to the rules of Voices. So if indirect sentence is given to you all three will be right.

DIRECT : He said " i have written a letter "
INDIRECT : He said that he had written a letter.(*)

DIRECT : He said " i had written a letter "
INDIRECT " He said that he had written a letter . (*)

DIRECT : He said " I wrote a letter.
INDIRECT : He said that he had written a letter. (*)

Hope its clear to you.
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you've covered all things about narration,in such a simple way,but i've a quetion here ,there is no way to easly attempt pair words ,antonyms and synonyms
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