Question

3. The teacher said, “Lalit has written a nice essay." Change the narration

Answer 1

Required Answer:-

• The teacher said, “Lalit has written a nice essay." (direct speech)
• The teacher told that Lalit had written a nice essay. (Indirect speech)

How the tense changed?

Present Simple → Past Simple

Present Continuous → Past Continuous

Present Perfect → Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple → Past Perfect

Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect → No change

Past Perfect Continuous → No change

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There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) 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 2

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Change the narration:

• The teacher said, "Lalit has written a nice essay. (Direct Speech)

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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 statement that 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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• The teacher told that Lalit had written a nice essay. (Reported Speech)

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‎ ‎1) Firstly, we have removed the inverted commas on the sentence.

‎ ‎2) Next we have changed "said" as "told".

‎ ‎3) Then we have inserted the appropriate conjunction "that" before the direct statement.

‎ ‎4) The tense of the reported statement should be in past perfect tense if the direct statement is in present perfect tense. So we have changed 'has written' to 'had written'.

‎ ‎5) Finally we ended the statement with a full stop and now, it's done !!

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