Father : Where shall we go for a holiday ?
Mita : Let's go to Goa.
Harsh : I want to go to Kashmir. change the indirect speech
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Explanation:
Father asked that where should they go for a holiday.
mita replied to go Goa
Harsh said that he want to go Kasmir.
Father asked Mita and Harsh where they should go for a holiday. Mita suggested they should go to Goa. However, Harsh said he wanted to go to Kashmir.
Explanation
The first sentence was an interrogative case. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
The second sentence was direct speech beginning with the word ‘let’ . Such sentences are very tricky. 'Let' in the sentences has different meanings. So, the reporting verb ‘said to’ is changed according to the idea conveyed by ‘Let’. The reporting verb in indirect speech can be changed into ‘Proposed’, ‘Suggested’, ‘Requested’, ‘Ordered’, ‘Wished’, ‘Told’, etc.
Third sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.