Question

Direct Speech to convert indiret Speech
He said to me, "i know the way".​

Answer 1

ANSWER :

❍ Direct Speech :-

• He said to me, "I know the way".

❍ Indirect Speech :-

• He told me that he knew the way

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ When the sentence of Direct Speech is in Simple Present Tense and the Reporting verb is in Past Tense form; in Indirect Speech, the sentence should be changed into Simple Past Tense.

• ✎ When the reporting verb of Direct Speech is "said to", it is changed to "told" in Indirect Speech.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech

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❒ Direct Speech :-

• ➬ In Direct Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Speech and there we need to use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Speech.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Speech is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Speech, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Speech.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct speech to Indirect Speech.