Question

Change the narration of the following sentence from direct to indirect speech using appropriate reporting verbs. 1.i said to her,"how is your father"?

Answer 1

Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.

Example: Morgan said,"I have to study." (Direct)

                Morgan said that she had to study. (Indirect)

In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence is contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.

I said to her,"How is your father?" (Direct)

I asked her how her father was. (Indirect)

Answer 2

Answer: I asked her how her father was .

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