Direct Speech and
Indirect Speech
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Answer:
☑️Direct Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in his own actual words without any change. ☑️Indirect Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in our own words.
a) Direct: Radha said, “I am very busy now.”
b) Indirect: Radha said that she was very busy then......
Understand some rules about how we can convert Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.
A word can be used to connect two parts of Direct Speech.
The pronoun Pronoun may have to be changed when making the words of Indirect Speech.
While making the words of Indirect Speech, some time tense may also have to be changed.
Exmaple:-
Incomplete present tense Present Continuous Tense has been changed to incomplete past tense Past Continuous Tense.
In some time sentences, the word denoting tense and auxiliary verbs may have to be changed as needed.
Example:-
That now is changed to then.