Direct And Indirect Speech Rules
Rules for converting Direct into Indirect speech
Answers
Answered by
366
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Rules for converting Direct into Indirect speech
- To change a sentence of direct speech into indirect speech there are various factors that are considered, such as reporting verbs, modals, time, place, pronouns, tenses, etc. We will discuss each of these factors one by one.
Rule 1 – Direct To Indirect Speech Conversion – Reporting Verb
- When the reporting verb of direct speech is in past tense then all the present tenses are changed to the corresponding past tense in indirect speech.
Direct to indirect speech example:-
Direct : She said, ‘I am happy’.
Indirect : She said (that) she was happy.
- In indirect speech, tenses do not change if the words used within the quotes (‘’) talk of a habitual action or universal truth.
Direct: He said, ‘We cannot live without air’.
Indirect: He said that we cannot live without air.
- The tenses of direct speech do not change if the reporting verb is in the future tense or present tense.
Direct to indirect speech example:
Direct: She says/will say, ‘I am going’
Indirect: She says/will say she is going.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Answered by
6
Explanation:
hope it will help you
And please follow me and make me brainly
Attachments:
Similar questions