Question

He said, 'Let us wait for your teacher.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

ANSWER:-

He said, 'Let us wait for your teacher.​

He asked to wait for my teacher.

Things to Note:-

• While converting from direct to indirect speech, convert the tense to its respective past tense.
• On the inverse, convert past tense to respective tense, present or future.
• While converting from indirect to direct, that day will change to today, the previous day to yesterday.
• Some pronouns will be changed ; reversibility.
• Double question Mark's will be applied.
• Commas will be applied. Exclaimed, assumed, prayed will change to said.
• While converting from direct to indirect. reverse will happen.

Answer 2

Required Answer:-

• He said, 'Let us wait for your teacher. (Direct Speech)
• He asked to wait for his teacher. (Indirect speech)

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How the tense changed?

Present Simple → Past Simple

Present Continuous → Past Continuous

Present Perfect → Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple → Past Perfect

Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect → No change

Past Perfect Continuous → No change

Explore more:-

There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:-

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb