Question

change the voice:
He said to me,"what is the matter with you?"​

Answer 1

Answer:

He questioned me what was the matter with me.

Explanation:

• Narrative speeches are also called Reported Speech.

Here are a few rules you follow while changing direct into indirect/narrative :

• Usage of reported speech: This speech tells you about what someone said, but doesn't report you in the original words of the speaker.

• Removal of quotation: As now you are already reporting it, you need to remove the quotation marks too.

• Changing pronoun: If you not the one to report your speech "I" changes to "he" or "she".

• Indirect speech is when you tell about a particular conversation that happened last, to someone else.

• One must change the tenses of a sentence.

• If something is a universal truth or any fact or a proverb of a quotation, NO changes take place in the form of tenses.

Also, following changes happens:

Now - Then

Today - That day

Said - Told

Will be - Would be

Answer 2

Change the speech :-

• He said to me,"what is the matter with you?"

He questioned me what was the matter with me.

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About Voice -:

Active voice :- A transitive verb can be used in two different forms and these two forms of the verb are called the active voice.

How to use :- In active voice, the subject of the verb is active it is directly responsible for the action indicated by the verb. In this form, the subject acts or does something which affect the object. The action of the subject passes on to the object.

Examples :-

❶ He hated me.

❷ We love our country.

❸ I am writing a letter.

❹ Ram killed a snake

❺ Columbus discovered America

In the above sentences the subject is door of an action and the action produces some affect and brings some changes in the object. It is in this sense that the verb is active. It is done in active voice.

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Passive voice :- In this voice the Subject is not the active agent of the action indicated by the verb.

How to use :- The object governs the verb and the subject doesn't act but us ut acted upon. Thus in passive voice the subject is pushed into the background.

Examples :-

❶ I am hated by him.

❷ Our country is loved by us.

❸ A letter is being written by me.

❹ A snake was killed by Ram.

❺ America was discovered by Columbus.

The above sentences will show that the Subject of the action is no longer active. Is has been pushed into the background. It is passive voice.

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About speech -:

There are 8 parts of speech. The part of speech are given below –

➥ Noun

➥ Pronoun

➥ Verb

➥ Adjective

➥ Adverb

➥ Preposition

➥ Conjunction

➥ Interjection

Applying rule for speech

${\bold{\sf{\dfrac{SOV}{123}}}}$

Where,

• ➥ S denotes Subject

• ➥ O denotes Object

• ➥ V denotes Verb

Some words that are change while changing speech

➥ Here - There

➥ Today - That day

➥ Tomorrow - The next day

➥ Now - Then

➥ This - That

➥ Will - Would

➥ Shall - Should

➥ Can - Could

Tense changes while changing speech

➥ Present simple - Past simple

➥ Present continuous - Past continuous

➥ Present perfect - Past perfect

➥ Past simple - Past perfect

Main conjunction used to change speech is "that".

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