Question

Change the form of Narration

1) "where are you going?"mother said to her daughter.
2) the girl replied that she was going to atten a birthday party of a friend​

Answer 1

Answer:

Mother asked her daughter where she was going.

The girl said, " l am going to attend a birthday party of a friend .

Answer 2

Answers:

1) The mother asked her daughter where she was going.

2) The girl said, "I am going to attend the birthday party of a friend of mine".

Knowledge Bytes:

Question 1 requires the narration change from direct to indirect while question 2 requires change of narration from indirect to direct.

→ Direct speech

✳ Direct speech is a quoted speech where the exact words spoken by a person is used along with the mentioning of 'to whom' these words were spoken to.

✳ Punctuation marks such as commas and double inverted commas are used in direct speech.

→ Indirect speech

✳ Indirect speech refers to the reporting of a conversation between any two persons to someone else.

✳ Minor changes are required in indirect speech (also known as reported speech) such as usage of past tense, minute changes in words used etc.

✳ Double inverted commas that denote direct speech are not required.