Question

Change the following into reported speech.

1)Santosh remarked, “ I found nobody except a few mountaineers. I asked if I

could join them. To my pleasant surprise, they answered in the affirmative and

motivated me to take to climbing.”

please help​

Answer 1

Answer:

Santosh said that she had found nobody except few mountaineers and I asked if I could join them and they further answered positively to my pleasant surprise and motivated me to take to climbing.

MoRe:

Direct Speech:

♦ Direct speech is used when the words spoken or written down are the actual words spoken by the same person.

• Jone said to him,"You have not done your work."

Indirect Speech:

♦ Indirect or reported speech is used when a person reports direct speech that is he reports orally or writes down the words in an appropriate tense and refers to the original speakers or rights in the third person making other necessary changes.

• Jone told him that he had not done his work.

Changes need to made:-

Here - There

Now - Then

Ago - Before

Last night - The previous night

Today - That day

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