He said,"The birds are singing."
Indirect speech
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The sentence can be changed into indirect speech as follows:
He said that the birds were singing.
What are direct and indirect sentences?
- In English linguistics, a direct voice sentence can be described as a sentence in which the exact words of the speaker are used to convey the message of the speaker. Direct speech is written in inverted commas.
- On the other hand, in indirect speech, the exact words of the speaker are not used to convey the message. Indirect speech is not written in inverted commas.
- As the sentence in the question is in the present continuous tense, when changing it into indirect, the tense will be past continuous.
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