Question

Gopi said to her friend inverted, " I found you sleeping when it was eight" change into indirect speech

Answer 1

Answer:

Gopi told her friend that she found her sleeping when it was eight.

Answer 2

Gopi told her friend that she found her sleeping when it was eight.

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• A conversation between two people ie between the first person and the second person is called direct speech.

• Example - Hitesh said to Bharat " I'll rock there."

• When the same dialogues are reported to a third person, it's called indirect speech.

• Example - Hitesh told Bharat that he would rock there.

$\purple{Rules:}$

• All the tenses of the direct speech are converted to the past tense in the indirect speech, but if the sentence is already in past tense, it turns to past perfect tense.

• Example -

1. Dhruv said to Aryan, " We watch a movie daily.

=> Dhruv told Aryan that they watched a movie daily.

• If the direct speech is a universal truth, the tense of the sentence doesn't change in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Shivam said, " The sun rises in the east."

=> Shivam said that the sun rises in the east.

• If the reporting verb is in the present or future tense, the tense of the verb isn't changed in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Aakash says , " I write a letter. "

=> Aakash says that he writes a letter.

• If the person addressed to, reports the speech, the second person in the direct speech becomes first person in the indirect speech.

• Example -

1. Ashok said to me , "You're an idiot."

=> Ashok told me that I was an idiot.