Question

Change the following sentences from Direct to Indirect speech. 1. The teacher said, “Soham has written a good story.”






















































































2. The stranger said to the boy, “Are you a student of DPS Sharjah?”





















































































































3. Anand said, “We will have a match at the onset of winter

Answer 1

Given sentence :-

The teacher said, “Soham has written a good story.”

Indirect speech :-

The teacher said that Soham had written a good story.

Given sentence :-

The stranger said to the boy, “Are you a student of DPS Sharjah?”

Indirect speech :-

The stranger asked the boy if he was a student of DPS Sharjah.

Given sentence :-

Anand said, “We will have a match at the onset of winter."

Indirect speech :-

Anand said that we would have a match at the onset of winter.

SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

• In changing a sentence from direct into indirect speech, all double inverted commas are removed.

• The sentence is changed into past tense.

• It is written in third-person reference.

                                                                         

Answer 2

1)The teacher said,"Soham has written a good story.

• The teacher said the soham had written a good story.

2)The stranger said to the boy,"Are you a student of DPS sharjah?

• The stranger asked boy that if he is a student of DPS sharajah.

3)Anand said ,"we will have a match at the onset of winter".

• Anand said that they would have a match at the onset of winter.

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An action or information can be expressed in a sentence.

In English the sentence are active or passive , direct or indirect.

Rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech:-

• In simple sentences that is used as a linker.

• If the reporting verb is in past tense then the main verb of the dialogue is also changed accordingly.

• If the reporting verb is in present or future tense the tense of the direct speech is not changed.

• Also in case of universal truth the sentence cannot be changed.