Question

Change the following sentences into indirect speech.
1. He said to me, "Ramesh invited me to play tennis with him."
2. Ankit said to Deepak, "I have not been keeping well for some time."
3. I said to him, “You should take my advice in the right spirit."
4. She said, "I go for an evening walk daily."
5. The husband said, “My wife is suffering from cancer.”​

Answer 1

Answer:

He said to me that Ramesh invites me to play tennis with him.

Ankit said to Deepak that He had not been keeping well .

I advised him that he should take my advice in the right spirit

she said that she go for an evening walk daily

the husband said that his wife is

suffering from cancer

Answer 2

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Change the following sentences into indirect speech.

1. He said to me, "Ramesh invited me to play tennis with him."

2. Ankit said to Deepak, "I have not been keeping well for some time."

3. I said to him, “You should take my advice in the right spirit."

4. She said, "I go for an evening walk daily."

5. The husband said, “My wife is suffering from cancer.”

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Change the following sentences into indirect speech.

1. He said to me, "Ramesh invited me to play tennis with him."

☞ He said to me that Ramesh invited me to play tennis with him.

2. Ankit said to Deepak, "I have not been keeping well for some time."

☞ Ankit said to Deepak that I have not been keeping well for sometime.

3. I said to him, “You should take my advice in the right spirit."

☞ I said to him that he shall take my advice in the right spirit.

4. She said, "I go for an evening walk daily."

☞ She said that she will go for an evening walk daily.

5. The husband said, “My wife is suffering from cancer.”

☞ The husband said that his wife is suffering from cancer.

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Direct speech ☞ Direct speech describes when something is being repeated exactly as it was, ( directly ) usually in between a pair of inverted commas.

Indirect Speech ☞ Indirect speech will still share the same information, but instead of expressing someone's comments or speech by directly repeating them, it involves reporting or describing what was said ( indirectly ).

Look at the following examples :-

Direct Speech: She said to me, “I am writing a letter to my brother.”

Indirect Speech: She told me that she was writing a letter to her brother.

Rules for conversion of Indirect Speech to Direct Speech -

• Use the reporting verb, "say" or "said to" in its correct tense.

• Remove the conjuctions "that, to, if or whether etc".

• Insert quotation marks, question mark, exclamation and full stop, wherever necessary.

• Put a comma before the statement.

General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech -

• Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks.

• End the sentence with a full stop.

• If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.