Question

A little boy said to a farmer have you seen the cloud? Change into indirect speech

Answer 1

Answer:

General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech. Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop. If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.

Answer 2

Given sentence :-

A little boy said to a farmer, ''Have you seen the cloud?''

Indirect speech :-

A little boy questioned the farmer if he had seen the cloud.

SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

• In changing a sentence from direct to indirect speech, the sentence is changed into past tense.

• If already in past tense, then it is changed into past participle.