Question

He said, ‘I want this book.’ change into indirect speech.

Answer 1

In indirect speech is He said that he wanted a book.

What is indirect speech speech?

• Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken.
• We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words.
• Inverted commas are not used.

How do you teach direct and indirect speech?

• Using Activities to Teach Reported Speech.

• Have your students rephrase sentences using reported speech.

• First, call on one of your students and read out a simple sentence.
• Then, have the student report the information back to you first using direct speech, then using indirect speech.

Hence, In indirect speech is He said that he wanted a book.

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Answer 2

We are given one sentence that is required to be changed into indirect speech. We shall change the sentence into indirect speech as under:

• For converting into indirect speech we have to remove the hyphenated commas.
• We also need to convert the sentence from active voice to passive voice.
• For that, we shall add the word that in the sentence.

• The sentence in the indirect speech can be written as 'He said that he wanted the book.'
• In the above sentence, the first person speech is changed to the second and the voice is changed.
• Change in punctuation is done to change from direct to indirect speech.

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