Convert the following sentences into indirect speech.
1. The teacher says, ‘Sun rises in East and sets in West.’
2. Rakesh said, ‘I want to buy this car.’
3. Ronita said, “I will finish my report in two days.”
4. The child said, ‘Mother is not at home.’
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Answer:
1. The teacher said that Sun rises in East and sets in West .
2. Rakesh said that he wanted to buy that car .
3. Ronita said that she will finish her report in two days .
4. The child said that mother was not at home .
Answer:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :------
1. The teacher says, ‘Sun rises in East and sets in West.’
-》 The teacher says that sun rises in east and sets in west.
2. Rakesh said, ‘I want to buy this car.’
-》 Rakesh said that he had wanted to buy that car.
3. Ronita said, “I will finish my report in two days.”
-》 Ronita said that she would finish her report in two days.
4. The child said, ‘Mother is not at home.’
-》 The child said that mother was not at home.
☆EXPLANATION☆
Change in the Tense of Reported Speech: If the first part of sentence (reporting verb part) belongs to past tense the tense of reported speech will change. If the first part of sentence (reporting verb part) belongs to present or future tense, the tense of reported speech will not change.The given sentence is in Direct speech. To change the narration means to change it into indirect speech. This is done by removing the inverted commas and converting the sentence as a reported speech statement. The first rule is to change the tense to past tense, the verb to past participle form.
♤Some Rules♤
■》 One very important rule is that in the indirect speech the the solid truth aur universal truth is always in present tense and II rule is when the verb is in past form in the indirect speech the verb is always past participle from wth "had ".