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Change the following into reported speech
1) Teacher said, "pls give me your pen”.
2) "Alas! The woman is dead," said he.
3) My friend said to me, 'Let's solve this puzzle."
4) Father said, "You should not break your promise."
5) Mother said to me, "why are you crying?"
6) She said, "Shall I ever win a gold medal?"
7) He said to me, "Have you posted the letters?"
8) Manju said to me, "I don't believe you".
9) "Will you come with me? "My friend asked me.
10) He says. "Life is short.
Answers
Explanation:
Your questions answers:-
1) Teacher requested to give her your pen.
2) He said sadly that the woman is dead.
3) My friend said to me that let's solve this puzzle.
4) Father said that you should not break your promise.
5) Mother said to me that why I was crying ?
6) She said that will she ever win a gold medal ?
7) He said to me that have I posted the letters ?
8) Manju said to me that she don't believe me.
9) My friend asked me that will I come with him/her?
10) He says that life is sort.
OTHER NOTES:-
☞ Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.
☞ Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.
REMEMBER:-
☞The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.
☞ In the reporting speech, words denoting first person ( I, my, me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person ( You, your, yours, yourself, yourselves ) change according to the object.
☞Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’, ‘now’ into ‘then’, ‘here’ into ‘there’, ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’, ‘yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.
✿ When questions are reported:--
☞Indirect questions beginning with auxillary verbs are introduced by ‘if’ or ‘whether’.
☞Indirect ‘wh-questions’ are introduced by the ‘wh-word’ which begins the question in the direct speech.
☞Word order is inverted, e.g.
‘Why are you making noise?’ [Direct speech] becomes ‘Why they were making noise’. [indirect speech]