Question

He said to me,"Did you play football yesterday?"​

Answer 1

• He asked me whether I played football the day before.

Answer 2

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Narration :-

➨ He said to me, "Did you play football yesterday ?"

• ✠ Indirect Narration :-

➨ He asked me whether I had played football the previous day.

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ In case of an interrogative sentence, the reporting verb "said/said to" in Direct Narration is changed to "asked" in Indirect Narration and "whether/if" is used as conjunction.

• ✎ When the sentence of Direct Narration is in Simple Past Tense and the Reporting verb is in Past Tense form; in Indirect Narration, the sentence is changed into Past Perfect Tense and the time phrase "yesterday" is changed to "the previous day".

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Narration :-

• ➬ Direct Narration

• ➬ Indirect Narration

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❒ Direct Narration :-

• ➬ In Direct Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Narration and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Narration.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Narration is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Narration :-

• ➬ In Indirect Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Narration, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Narration.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct Narration to Indirect Narration.