Can you change the following into Indirect speech
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Question:
Change the given sentences into indirect speech.
1. “We are building a house”, my friend said to me.
2. “It has been a dull life in this village”, the boy said to his father.
3. “I would advise an operation”, the doctor said to the patient.
4. “This river causes floods every time we have heavy rains”, the villager said to the collector.
5. “All the shops are closed today on account of the bandh”, he informed me.
6. “The portrait will be unveiled on Independence Day”, the headmaster said to the students.
Answer:
1. My friend told me that they were building a house.
2. The boy told his father that it had been a dull life in that village.
3. The doctor told the patient that he would advise an operation.
4. The villager told the collector that that river caused floods every time they had heavy rains.
5. He informed me that all the shops were closed on account of the bandh.
6. The headmaster told the students that the portrait would be unveiled on Independence Day.
Explanation:
All the given sentences are Simple Sentences.
While converting the simple sentences into indirect speech, we have to use "told" instead of "said to".
The conjunction used to join the two sentences is "that" for simple sentences.
If the reported verb is in past tense, the tense of the reported speech is changed.
If the reported speech is in Simple Present Tense, it is converted into Simple Past Tense.
The word "this" is converted into "that".
The word "we" is converted into "they".
In this way, direct speech with simple sentences can be converted into indirect speech.