Question

Clearing all doubts she says, "I'm Russian. It's true that the U. S. is a part of my life. But I have Russian citizenship. My blood is totally Russian. I will play the Olympics for Russian if they want me ". Turn into indirect speech

Answer 1

Clearing all doubt s she said that she was Russian. It's true that the U. S. was a part of her life but she had Russian citizenship. Her blood was totally Russian and she would play the Olympics for Russian if they wanted her.

• The direct speech is written in present tense but when it is changed to indirect speech it becomes in the past tense.

• In direct speech, the exact words of the speaker are quoted in double inverted commas.
• While in indirect speech, the words of the speaker are reported and written in past tense.
• That's why indirect speech is also known as reported speech.