Question

change into indirect speech

the boy said to the teacher,"i do not know the answer"

Answer 1

Answer:

the answer i dont known is your answer

Answer 2

Given:

The boy said to the teacher, "I do not know the answer."

What To Do:

Change the sentence into indirect speech.

Answer:

The boy told to the teacher that he did not know the answer.

Direct Speech:

If the words or sentence of one person is repeated by another person that to accurately and exactly then these types of speech are called direct speech.

Indirect Speech:

If the words or sentence of one person is repeated by another person but accurately and exactly then these types of speech are called indirect speech.

Rules:

1. The words or sentence of the speaker ae in inverted commas in direct speech but not in indirect or reported speech.

2. In indirect speech there is a reporting clause that is used at the end or the beginning of the sentence (Pranjal said, Yash ask, etc)

3. The sentence change its tense in indirect speech according to the tense given in direct speech.

• Simple Present → Simple Past
• Simple Past → Past Perfect
• Present Continuous → Past Continuous
• Present Perfect → Past Perfect

4. Some words are also changed in indirect speech.

• Can → Could
• Shall → Should/Would
• Will → Would
• May → Might
• This → That
• These → Those
• Here → There
• Today → That day
• Tonight → That night
• Yesterday → The previous day/ The day before
• Tomorrow → The next/following day
• Next → The next/following
• Last → The previous