Question

direct and indirect speech
1)My mother said," I never get up late"
2)"I could swim when I was four",said my younger brother ​

Answer 1

1) My mother said that she never got up late.

2) My younger brother said that he could swim when he was four.

Answer 2

1.) 'My mother said that she never got up late.'

2.) 'My younger brother said that he could swim when he was four.'

• When we change a sentence from direct speech to indirect speech, we have to follow a set of rules required to modify the sentence.
• Parts of speech such as tense, verbs and pronouns should be changed accordingly.
• First, the inverted commas and quotation marks are removed from the sentence. Then, the tense is changed, usually to simple past tense.
• Verbs are also changed to past tense. Universal truths remain in their tense and the verbs are also not changed.
• The pronouns are changed to third person as we are reporting the speaker in our own words.