Question

The Indirect speech of - said. "I was watching TV when the telephone rang."​

Answer 1

Answer: I

Direct Object is the thing being acted by the verb. For example in this sentence: watching is the verb, so then ask watching what? Tv. So tv is the direct object.

Indirect object is noun doing the verb. So for this example, who is watching the tv? I. I is the person doing the action so I is the indirect object.