Direct: “We were playing basketball”, they told me. make it indirect
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they told me that they had been playing basketball
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The conversion to indirect speech is done, and the answer is:
They told me that they were playing basketball.
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Types of sentences found in English.
- simple
- compound
- complex
- Imperative
- interrogative
- negative
- Declarative
These types of sentences also have direct and indirect speeches as a part .
For any direct speech to be converted into indirect speech, the meaninv of the sentence should not be changed. The verbs and the tense of the sentence should not be different than the original sentence given.
A few notes to keep in mind while forming indirect speech:
construct indirect speech, you usually use reporting verbs like “to ask”, “to say” and “to tell”, and you may often include the word “that” to describe what was said.
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