He asked the bird,"What are you doing?"The bird replied,"I am going to extinguish the fire."(change into indirect narration)
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He asked the bird that what the bird was doing. The bird said that the bird was going to extinguish the fire.
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The given sentences can be changed into indirect narration as shown below:
He asked the bird what he was doing. The bird replied that he was going to extinguish the fire.
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 sentence that was to be converted into indirect speech. It was a simple statement. So, we applied the tense change and pronoun change rules that we usually apply while converting the direct speech into indirect speech.
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