Question

Change the speech of the following sentence the boy says ' virat is a good batsman.'

Answer 1

Direct : The Boy says , ' Virat is a good batsman '

Indirect : The Boy told that Virat was a good batsman.

Additional Information :

1. There are two types of speeches : Direct and Indirect.
2. Indirect speech is also called as reported speech .
3. In indirect speech you can observe a change in the tense .
4. In order to identify wether the sentence is in direct or indirect speech : Check the quotation marks ... if you find them then the sentence is in direct speech .
5. The point to be noted is that while changing from direct to indirect there are many words which would alter like as per the question the words which altered are :

▪️Said to - Told ▪️Tomorrow - The next day .

Answer 2

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→ The boy says 'Virat is a good batsman'.

→ The boy said that Virat was a good batsman.

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REPORTED SPEECH -

→ There are two kind of speech , one is direct another one is indirect.

→ Direct refers to first hand statement directly given by a person , whereas Indirect refers to the translated statement by other person.

→ In Indirect speech, use of inverted comma (') is prohibited. Instead of inverted comma , that is used.

→ Tense is changed accordingly.

→ Change in pronoun is also observed.