Question

B Change the following sentences into indirect speech.

1 John said, "I work everyday".
2 Mohan said , "I am playing the guitar now ".
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. John said that he had been working every day.

2. Mohan said that he was playing the guitar then.

Answer 2

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(1) John said that he worked everyday.

(2) Mohan said that he was playing the guitar then.

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There are two types of speeches ----

1. Direct speech or Direct narration

2. Indirect speech or Indirect narration

$\underline \bold {1. Direct speech:-}$

What a man says is kept as it is within a quotation (" ") marks. A sentence containing such a quote is called the DIRECT SPEECH or DIRECT NARRATION.

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

⟹ There is no change in words.

Example : He said, "I am okay."

$\underline \bold {1. Indirect speech:-}$

Sometimes the exact speech of a speaker is not repeated but reported. Such a speech is called INDIRECT SPEECH or INDIRECT NARRATION.

⟹ 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.

Example : He said that he was okay.

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