Question

He said, “I have a new water bottle”.[Rewrite the following sentence in indirect speech]

Answer 1

Question:

• He said, “I have a new water bottle.”

What to do:

• Rewrite the sentence in indirect speech.

Answer:

• He said he have a new water bottle. [Turned this sentence into indirect speech]

More to know:

☞ Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.

☞ Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.

Remeber:

✯The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.

✯ In the reported speech words denoting first person (I, my,me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) change according to the object.

✯ Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’ ; ‘now into then’ ; ‘here’ into ‘there’ ; ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’ ; ‘Yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.

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