Question

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Change the narrative style of the following text."What do you intend to do now?"
"I want to study medicine," Sadia replied. ''I'll try to get admission into a government medical college.''

Answer 1

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Someone asked Sadia that what does she intended to do now. Sadia replied that she wants to study medical and also told that she will try to get addmission into a goverment medical college.

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In English there are 2 types of speeches that are:-

1. Direct speech

2. Indirect speech

Explanation!

1. Direct speech:-

→ Direct speech also known as quoted speech means the actual or exact words that are spoken by a person.

→ The direct speech is always enclosed with inverted commas (" ")

→ There is no change in words.

→ For eg; They said," Rohan is our best friend."

2. Indirect speech:-

→ Indirect speech means reporting what the first person has said or asked.

→ we change a sentence in indirect speech without using first person's actual words.

→ This is also known as reported speech.

→ We change it into the past tense.

For eg; They told that Rohan is their best friend.

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Answer 2

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1. "What do you intend to do now?" "I want to study medicine," Sadia replied. ''I'll try to get admission into a government medical college.'' ( Direct speech )

• Someone asked Sadia that what does she intended to do now. Sadia replied that she wants to study medical and also told that she will try to get addmission into a goverment medical college. ( 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

Explore more:-

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