Question

Change the form of narration.
a) Rina said to me, "Where are you going?"
b) She told me that the earth is round.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Rina asked me where I was going.

b) She said to me, "The earth is round."

Explanation:

a) As the sentence is interrogative, the reporting verb 'said' changes to asked/enquired. 'are you going' is in the present continuous tense which changes to past continuous tense 'was I going', however we change the question into a statement which becomes 'I was going'.

b) 'told' will change to 'said to' in direct speech. As this is a universal truth, the tense will not change.

Answer 2

Answer:

The following sentences would be used in the reported speech: 1. Rina inquired as to where I was going. and 2. "She said, "the Earth is round."

Explanation:

• When we relay the words of another person to another, we are engaged in the practice of reporting speech.
• When we speak in a manner that is not direct, we frequently use a tense that is "further back" in the past than the tense that was initially used. This is referred to as "back shifting."
• A report of the words exactly that a speaker or writer has used is an example of direct speech. Sometimes referred to as "direct discourse."
• The first sentence in the question is posed in direct speech, but it is then transformed into indirect speech. In contrast, the second sentence in the question is posed in indirect speech and then transformed into direct speech.

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