Question

change into indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

The teacher requested the principal to grant him leave for two days only.

Answer 2

Answer:

The teacher requested the principal to grant him leave for two days.

Explaination:

Direct and Indirect speech:-

As we know there are two ways of relating what a person has said. That is Direct and Indirect speech.

Direct speech:-

• In direct speech actual words of the speeker are quoted and it contains the exact wording of the speaker which he/she told.

Indirect speech:-

• In indirect speech commas are used to mark the exact words of speaker. Whereas, exact meaning is also given without necessarily using speaker's words. In these the exact words of someone else is repeated and told by other people.

Remember that the given sentence is in direct speech. We can easily identify the direct speech by seeing the inverted commas.

★ Changes tooked place :-

• 'Me' is changed to 'him'
• 'Request' is added
• Inverted commas are removed

More examples:

★ Direct speech:-

• He asked her, “How often do you work?”
• Dance with me!
• My sister said, “I am cooking dinner.”
• I was walking along the Street.

★ Indirect speech:-

• He said he could speak perfect Spanish.
• He said he hadn’t seen Mary.
• He said that she hadn’t seen George recently.

Additional Information:

Rules for changing Direct into Indirect speech:-

• Rule 1. If the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, tense in the reported speech is not changed.
• Rule 2. If reporting verb is in past tense, the tense of verb in the reported speech is changed into one forms of past tense.
• Rule 3. Pronouns and possesive adjectives of the first and second person in direct speech are changed into third person in indirect speech.
• Rule 4. In reporting speech , the words expressing nearness of time and place are changed into words showing a specific distance.