Question

Change the sentences in the indirect speech:


(a) She said to me, “These are the flowers I want.”

(b) The old man said to the officer, “This bag is not mine.”​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. She said to me that those were the flowers she want.
2. The old man said to the officer that was not his bag.

Answer 2

Changing the sentence into Indirect speech.

Ans: (a) She told me those were the flowers she wanted.

        (b) The old man told the officer that that bag was not his.

Explanation:

Indirect speech is also called reported speech.

It is the reporting of the content of someone's speech without quoting it directly.

E.g., He said, 'I am hungry.'

This is a direct speech, where the original sentence uttered by the speaker is quoted.

He told that he was hungry.

This is an indirect speech, where the original sentence uttered is not quoted but the content is communicated with deteriorating the meaning.