change the narration
ravi said my father is playing cricket whit me
Answers
Ravi said that his father was playing cricket with him.
Explanation ↴
According to the rules of changing sentences from direct speech to Indirect speech, we have to convert the present continuous tense into the past continuous tense.
(1) Inverted commas are removed when we convert from direct to indirect speech.
(2) The comma separating the reporting verb from the direct speech is omitted in indirect speech.
(3) The reported speech is introduced by conjunctions such as that, if, what, why.
(4) The reporting verb changes according to the sense conveyed by the sentence.
Answer:
Question :
Change the narration :
Ravi said," my father is playing cricket with me."
To do :
Change into indirect speech.
Answer :
Ravi said that his father was playing cricket with him.
Changes done :
- In indirect speech, Remove the inverted commas and add the word that.
- While we change from direct to indirect speech, the tense will also change.
For example :
- Ravi said," my father is playing cricket with me."
Ravi said that his father was playing cricket with him.
- You can see here that the tense has changed from Present Continuous Tense to Past Continuous Tense.
- My father in direct speech changes to his father because it is Ravi's father and Ravi is a boy.
- So , we should use his father.
- Me changes to him because his father was playing with him ( Ravi ).
- Therefore, by these steps we can change into indirect speech.
- Hence, we got the answer.