Question

change into reported indirect speech
"I'm just going shopping," Mrs, Blake said to her husband. "Is there anythig i can get for you"?

Answer 1

Correct Question :-

Change into indirect speech

"I'm just going shopping," Mrs Blake said to her husband. "Is there anything I can get for you?"

AnswEr :-

Mrs Blake told her husband that she was just going shopping. She asked him if there was anything she could get for him.

Extra Information :-

The points mentioned below are to be noted when we deal with the Direct and Indirect forms of narration :-

※ Always remember to enclose the direct speech within inverted commas.

※ Never change the tense of the reporting verb.

※ If the verb inside the inverted commas is about a Universal truth, don't change the tense.

※ If the reporting verb is in Present tense or Future tense, don't change the tense.

» The following are changed according to these certain rules if direct speech is to be changed into Indirect speech :-

✦ Tenses

✦ Personal and Possessive pronouns

✦ Words denoting nearness of time and nearness of position.

Answer 2

Mrs Blake told her husband that she was just going for shopping. She further asked whether there was anything she could get for him.

$\purple{Additional \: information :}$

• A conversation between two people ie between the first person and the second person is called direct speech.

• Example - Kunal said to Hemant, " I'll rock there."

• When the same dialogues are reported to a third person, it's called indirect speech.

• Example - Kunal told Hemant that he would rock there.

$\red{Rules:}$

• All the tenses of the direct speech are converted to the past tense in the indirect speech, but if the sentence is already in past tense, it turns to past perfect tense.

• Example -

1. Krishant said to Nishant, " We watch a movie daily.

=> Krishant old Nishant that they watched a movie daily.

• If the direct speech is a universal truth, the tense of the sentence doesn't change in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Bhavesh said, " The sun rises in the east."

=> Bhavesh said that the sun rises in the east.

• If the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the tense of the verb isn't changed in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Rudra says , " I write a letter. "

=> Rudra says that he writes a letter.

• If the person addressed to, reports the speech, the second person in the direct speech becomes first person in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Vishal said to me , "You're a genius."

=> Vishal told me that I was a genius.