Question

Change into the reported speech:
father said ,"ravi, why have you locked the door?"

Answer 1

Father asked Ravi why he had locked the door.

$\blue{Additional \: information :}$

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

• Example - Ankit said to Aniket, " I'll rock there."

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

• Example - Ankit told Aniket that he would rock there.

$\green{Rules:}$

• 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. Kunal said to Kushal, " We watch a movie daily."

=> Kunal told Kushal 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. Hardik said, " The sun rises in the east."

=> Hardik 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. Harshil says , " I write a letter. "

=> Harshil 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. Rudra said to me , "You're an idiot".

=> Rudra told me that I was an idiot.

Answer 2

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Father asked Ravi '' Why he had locked the door " ?