Question

change into indirect speech.
I said to myself, " I will definitely beat him in the next event".​

Answer 1

Answer:

I assured myself that I would win/beat him in the next event.

Explanation:

Narrative speeches are also called Reported Speech.

Here are a few rules you follow while changing direct into indirect/narrative :

• Usage of reported speech: This speech tells you about what someone said, but doesn't report you in the original words of the speaker.

• Removal of quotation: As now you are already reporting it, you need to remove the quotation marks too.

• Changing pronoun: If you not the one to report your speech "I" changes to "he" or "she".

Indirect speech is when you tell about a particular conversation that happened in last, to someone else.

One must change the tenses of a sentence.

• If something is a universal truth or any fact or a proverb of a quotation, NO changes take place the form of tenses.

Also, following changes happens:

Now - Then

Today - That day

Said - Told

Will be - Would be

Answer 2

Answer :

I assured myself that I would win him in the next event.

Explanation :

Narrative speeches is also called Reported speeches.

Here are few rules you follow while changing direct into narrative :

Usage of reported speech : This speech tells you about what someone said ,but doesn't report you in the original words of the speaker.

Removal of quotation : As now you are already reporting it, you need to remove quotation marks too.

changing pronoun : If you not the one to report your speech "I" changes to "he" or "she".

Indirect speech is when you tell about a particular conversation that happened in last,to someone else.

One must change the tenses of a sentence.

• If something is a universal truth or any fact or a proverb of a quotation, No changes take place the form of tenses.

also follow changes happens :

Now - Then

Today - That day

Said - Told

Will be - Would be