Question

Garim Said To Her Friend, "we Can't Go Out Now As it Was Raining " Change into Reported Speech​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Garim told her friend that they could not go out then as it was raining

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Answer 2

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Garim said to her friend, "We can't go out now as it was raining." Change into reported speech.

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Garim said to her friend that they couldn't go out then as it had been raining.

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The sentence we were given is :- Garim said to her friend, "We can't go out now as it was raining."

Here, the reporting verb Garim said to her friend is in simple past and the reported speech "We can't go out now as it was raining is in Past Continuous Tense.

The tense of Past continuous tense changes into Past Perfect Continuous when we convert its Direct speech into Reported/indirect speech.

The Helping verbs of Past continuous 'was' & 'were' will change into 'had been' with the present Participle (first form) form of the Verb and ING.

So, we change this kind of sentence as followings:-

• Put that instead of the quotes.
• Pronoun We changes to They
• Present form Can't changes to couldn't as the reported verb is in Simple Past tense.
• Now changes to then
• Finally the main verb was raining changes to had been raining .

Some Examples:-

• Direct:- He said, "We can't do work as it was raining."

Indirect:- He said that they couldn't do the work as it had been raining.

• Direct:- She said, "we were making the frames of sunglasses".

Indirect:- She said that they had been making the frames of sunglasses.

• Direct:- Taylor said to me, "I was Learning the basic English Grammar"

Indirect:- Taylor said to me that he had been learning the Basic English Grammar.