Question

( Change into indirect Speech ) Yuvraj said, "I am a good dancer"

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Answer 1

Answer:

Direct Speech :- Yuvraj said, "I am a good dancer"

Indirect Speech :- Yuvraj said that he was a good dancer.

Additional Information:-

• Direct speech includes the actual or real words spoken by the speaker in quotation marks
• Indirect speech has many modifications
• Usually , the fact is that a mixture of direct and indirect narrations in the writings bring up extra attention of the readers
• But , we must use them wisely as the entire writing doesn't look nice if you write continuously in one narration
• Indirect speech witnesses a change in the tense
• Simple Present - Simple Past
• Present Continuous - Past Continuous
• Present Perfect - Past perfect continuous , and so on !!
• All you have to do is keep aware of the tense formats and use them accordingly

Answer 2

QUESTION -

Change into indirect Speech

- > Yuvraj said, "I am a good dancer"

ANSWER -

- > Yuvraj said that he was a good dancer.

__REPORTED SPEECH__

OR

___Indirect Speech____

It is the second-hand account of what has been spoken by someone else (direct speech). In the above example, Amit’s friend reports what their teacher had said in the classroom. Inverted commas (“…”) are used for indicating direct speech, i.e., for showing the exact words spoken by the speaker.