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friend said to me, "what did you do yesterday convert sentence to reported speech

Answer 1

Correct Question :

My friend said to me, "what did you do yesterday ?"

Convert sentence to reported speech.

Answer:

My friend asked me what I had done the previous day.

Explanation:

• There are two main ways of reporting.

• These are direct speech and indirect or reported speech.

• When we use direct speech, we quote the actual word spoken by a person.

• In writing, this is shown within quotation marks

• When we use indirect speech, we do not quote the actual words spoken by a person.

• But convey their meaning in our own words.

• The connector that is used to introduce indirect words.

Answer 2

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Question:- My Friend said to me , "What did you do yesterday ?"

Answer:- My Friend asked me that what did I do in previous day?

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An action or information can be expressed in a sentence.

Direct speech:- The actual words of the speaker with punctuation is called Direct speech.

Indirect speech:- The meaning of the substance of the speakers words in the sentence is called indirect speech.

Rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech:-

• The inverted commas are omitted in the indirect speech.
• The capital letter with inverted commas in Direct speech will not remain capital in indirect speech.
• The tense of the Verb will be changed while changing the speech.
• The pronoun should be changed according to the sense of speech.
• Indirect speech witness a change in the tense.
• Simple present - simple past
• Present continuous- past Continuous
• Present perfect - past perfect continuous.

Indirect speech has many modifications.

Note:-

• When the given sentence is universal truth then the sentence cannot be changed.

Ex:- The sun rises in the east.(It is a universal fact so the sentence cannot be changed)

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