(2) I want to see the king.Gopal told the gurads---------------. Change the following sentences to reported speech:
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Change to Indirect Speech:
- "I want to see the king", Gopal said to the guards.
- Direct Speech- Saying exactly what someone has said is called as direct speech.
- For example, She said, "I am writing a letter to my mother".
- Indirect Speech- Reporting someone's thought which he/she had said, without using that person's exact words is called as indirect speech.
- For example, She told that she was writing a letter to her mother.
- It is also called as Reported speech.
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- Gopal told the guards that he wanted to see the king.
1) Firstly, we have removed the inverted commas/quotation marks.
2) Next we have changed "said to" as "told".
3) Then we have inserted the appropriate conjunction "that" before the direct statement.
4) Next we have changed the pronoun "I" to "he" because the pronouns of first and second person changes to third person in indirect speech.
5) The tense of the reported speech should be in past tense, so we have changed 'want' as 'wanted'.
6) Finally we ended the statement with a full stop.
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Gopal said to the guard that he wanted to see the King.
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