Question

. Change the following into INDIRECT SPEECH:
"Dawn hurt herself during P.E. lesson this morning," Mary said.

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Answer 1

Mary said that Dawn had hurt herself during P. E. lesson that morning.

Answer 2

Here's the Indirect form :

★Mary said that Dawn hurt herself during P.E. lesson that morning .

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★Some Rules of Narration :

• In the change of narration from direct to indirect the pronouns of reported speech are changed .

• The tense of the reporting verb is very significant. In determines whether we need to change the tense or reported speech or not .

• In the case when the , reporting verb is in past form then only there will be change of tense in reported speech .

• Again what type of sentence the reported speech is . That is also significant in narration. Because the connectives are chosen according to types of sentences .For example : in assertive sentence we use the connective 'that' , but in imperative we use 'to' as connective .