Answer-Rewrite the sentence in Direct Speech. She told her mother that she was doing her work.

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told is used when two people are mentioned in the reporting speech told is converted to said in the direct speech.    Indirect speech  always undergoes a reverse backshift in tense and so was doing which is in past continuous tense will be converted into am doing which is in present continuous.    Am is used because I is used.

Rewrite the sentence in Direct Speech. She told her mother that she was doing her work.

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