Question

direct or indirect speech​

Answer 1

i. The librarian told the visitors to turn off the cell phones.

➯ Indirect speech

ii. The signboard says that the children must be accompanied by an adult all the times.

➯ Indirect speech

iii. "It rained here last night," Simran told us.

➯ Direct speech

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★ Additional Information:

There are two types of speechs.

• Direct speech: Something which was said by the speaker directly.

• Indirect speech: Something which was told by somebody else.

Answer 2

❒ ReQuiReD AnsWerS :

8. The librarian told the visitors to turn off the cell phones.

• ➺ Indirect speech

9. The signboard says that the children must be accompanied by an adult all the times.

• ➺ Indirect speech

10. "It rained here last night," Simran told us.

• ➺ Direct speech

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❍ How verbs change in reported speech?

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There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb