Question

(2) I want to see the king.Gopal told the gurads---------------. Change the following sentences to reported speech:
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Answer 1

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Change to Indirect Speech:

• "I want to see the king", Gopal said to the guards.

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• 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.

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‎ ‎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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Answer 2

Gopal said to the guard that he wanted to see the King.