উপরোক্ত বাক্যটি একটি Indirect speech. Direct speech : Her half sister said to me,"She did the assignment yesterday." এখানে, indirect narration এর নিয়ম অনুসারে, said to me > told me Did >had done ( past simpleথাকলে past perfect হয়) Yesterday > the previous day. এভাবেই sentence টি Indirect narration এ পরিবর্তন করে হয়েছে। Her half sister told me that she had done the assignment the previous day.