brother said to his sister,"let mr solve the sum " change the mode of narration
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The brother asked his sister to let him solve the sum.
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In English there are 2 types of speeches that are:-
- Direct speech
- Indirect speech
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Explanation!
- 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; He said to me, " What are you doing?"
- 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; He asked me what I was doing.
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Required Answer:-
1. Brother said to his sister,"let me solve the sum " ( Direct speech )
- The brother asked his sister to let him solve the sum. ( 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