Change to indirect 1)The speaker said 'young students need to devote some time to social work'
2)the lawyer said' it is a hopeless case '
Answers
1. The speaker said that young students needed to devote some time to social work.
2. The lawyer said that it was a hopeless case.
Explanation
These sentences were statements. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.
Answer:
Direct speech:
The speaker said young students need to devote some time to social work.
Indirect speech:
The speaker said that young students needed to devote some time to social work.
Direct speech:
The lawyer said it is a hopeless case.
Indirect speech:
The lawyer said that it was a hopeless case.
Additional information:
Indirect speech:
➜ He told her that, she was trying to insult me.
Direct speech:
➜ He said to her, "you are trying to insult me".
Direct speech definition:
➜ Direct speech is quote actual words of the speaker.
Indirect speech definition:
➜ Indirect speech reports the content said by the speaker without quoting exact words. This is "Reported speech".
Examples of direct and indirect speech:
Direct speech:
➜ Nayanshreyas, said "I have scored 100% marks in maths".
Indirect speech:
➜ Nayanshreyas said that he had scored 100% marks in maths.
Converting direct to indirect speech:
➜ Changing the tenses.
➜ Changing the pronouns.
➜ Changing the expression of the words for (Place, things, Time).