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Correct sentence :

• Vishwas said, "Veena is playing with the sitar."

Answer :

• Vishwas said that Veena was playing with the sitar.

Explanation:

There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:

• When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.
• When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb.

Answer:

vishwas told me that veena was playing with the sitar