Question

Aishwarya said to me, "what is can i do for you?" ​

Answer 1

Topic – Direct and Indirect Speech

Correct Sentence:

1. Aishwarya said to me, "what can I do for you?"

AnsweR:

1. Aishwarya asked me what she could do for me.

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How verbs change in reported speech?

Direct Speech⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Indirect Speech

Simple present⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Simple past

Present continuous⠀⠀⠀Past continuous

Present perfect⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past Perfect

Present perfect Past perfect continuous⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ continuous ⠀

Simple past⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect

Past continuous⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀continuous

Past perfect⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect

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★More to know:–

Suppose your teacher told you that you were the most intelligent boy in your class. You want to convey this to your parents. You can do it in either of these two ways:

1. My teacher said to me, “You are the most intelligent boy in the class.”
2. My teacher told me that I was the most intelligent boy in the class.

In sentence 1, you have repeated your teacher's exact words. In order to make it clear that you are repeating the words actually spoken by the teacher, they are put within Quotation marks ("... ..."). This method of quoting someone is called Direct Speech or Narration.

In sentence 2, you have put in your own words what the teacher said. This method of quoting someone is called Indirect Speech or Narration.

What is Direct Speech?

• When the exact words used by a speaker are reproduced within Quotation Marks, it is called Direct Speech.

What is Indirect Speech?

• When the substance of a speech is conveyed in the reporter's words, it is called Indirect Speech

Things to Remember in Direct and Indirect Speech:–

In Direct Speech -

1. The exact words of the speaker are put within Inverted Commas (“ ”).
2. The Direct Speech is separated from the remaining sentence by a Comma ( , ).
3. The first word of the Reported Speech begins with a Capital Letter.

In Indirect Speech -

1. No Inverted Commas are used.
2. No Comma is used to separate the Reported speech from the rest of the sentence.
3. A Conjunction, if necessary, is used to join the Reported Speech with the rest of the sentence.
4. The Tense of the Verb undergoes a change. (The Tense of the Verb in the Reported Speech is changed from Present to Past).

Answer 2

Aishwarya asked me what she could do for me.

Direct speech

The exact sentence that is spoken by the original speaker, it is known as direct speech.

• Examples:- They said to her, " You are looking nice".
• I said to her, "Shreya will be late today".

Indirect speech

A sentence in which a person reports about what was spoken by the original speaker, it is known as indirect speech.

• Examples:- They told her that she was looking nice.
• I told her that Shreya would be late that day.

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Direct speech Indirect speech

Now Then

Today That day

Yesterday The previous day

This That

Here There

Tomorrow The following day

Ago Before

Tonight That night

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