Question

EXERCISE 77
Change the following into indirect speech
1. He said, "I want to stay here this morning."
2. She said, “These flowers are very beautiful.”
3. They said to her, "We shall see you tomorrow.”
4. He said, "I am going away tomorrow."
5. She said to me, “I can't give you money today.”
6. The boy said to his mother, “I shall not go to school today."
7. He said, “My mother will come the day after tomorrow.”
8. I said, "I did it yesterday."
9. She said, "I wrote to him the day before yesterday."
10: The farmer said, “I bought the hen yesterday and I am going
to sell it tomorrow.”
11. She said to me, “I couldn't meet you last night, because I was
so busy.”​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. he said that he wanted to stay there that morning.

Answer 2

Required Answers:-

1. He said, "I want to stay here this morning."

→ He sid that he wanted to stay there that morning.

2. She said, "These flowers are very beautiful."

→ She said that those flowers were very beautiful.

3. They said to her, "We shall see you tomorrow."

→ They said to her that they might see her the next day.

4. He said, "I am going away tomorrow."

→ He said that he was going away the next day.

5. She said to me, "I can't give you money today."

→ She said to me that she could not give money today.

6. The boy said to his mother, "I shall not go school today."

→ The boy said to his mother that he might not go to school today.

7. He said, "My mother will come the day after tomorrow."

→ He said that his mother would come the day after tomorrow.

8. I said, "I did it yesterday."

→ I said that I had done it a day before.

9. She said, "I wrote to him the day before yesterday."

→ She said that she had written to him the day before yesterday.

10. The farmer said, "I bought the hen yesterday and I am going."

→ The farmer said that he had bought the hen a day before and he was going.

11. She said to me, "I couldn't meet you last night because I was so busy."

→ She said to me that she couldn't meet me last night because she was so busy.

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Explore More!!!

→ What are direct speech?

✓ The words spoken directly by the speaker, without making any changes into it are known as direct speech. The words spoken by the speaker is always enclosed within double inverted commas (" ").

Eg:- I said, "I am very busy today."

→ What are indirect speech?

✓ The act of reporting a speech by making necessary changes to it is known as indirect speech. The inverted commas (" ") in this speech are removed.

Eg:- I said that I was very busy today.

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Points to remember!!

↦Direct speech:-

• In a direct speech the first speech under inverted commas must be capital.
• The reporting verb and the direct speech must be separated using commas.

↦Indirect speech:-

• In indirect speech the tense of the reporting verb must not be changed.
• All kind of sentences should be converted into assertive sentence.
• Indirect speech must be introduced by characters like:- That, whether, if, about, etc.
• The comma separating the reporting verb and the speech must be removed.

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Exceptions for reported speech (or indirect speech):-

The tense of the reported speech may not change of the narration is about a universal truth, habitual facts or historical facts.

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