Complete the sentence in
reported speech -chetan .how was your first day in school. Nikhil. It wa s very boring
Answers
The given sentences can be converted into reported speech as shown below:
Chetan asked Nikhil how his first day in school was. Nikhil rplied that it was/had been very boring.
Explanation
The first sentence was a 'wh-' question. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
The second sentence was a simple statement and we just changed the tense as per the rules.
Chetan told Nikhil that his first day in school was very boring.
In the reported speech sentence, your require using the past form of the verb.
When it comes to direct speech, it uses the present tense of the verb.
The structure of reported speech is somewhat different based on whether the writer wants to change a request, statement or question.