Question

He says, "The child has been crying since last night"​

Answer 1

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He tells that the child has been crying since the last night.

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In English there are 2 types of speeches those are :-

1. Direct speech

2. Indirect speech

Explanation!

1. Direct speech:-

➩ Direct speech also known as quoted speech means the actual or exact words that are spoken by a person.

➩ The direct speech is always enclosed with inverted commas (" ")

➩ There is no change in words.

➩ For eg; Seema said," I am going to sing next."

2. Indirect speech:-

➩ Indirect speech means reporting what the first person has said or asked.

➩ we change a sentence in indirect speech without using first person's actual words.

➩ This is also known as reported speech.

➩ We change it into the past tense.

➩ For eg; Seema told that she was going to sing next.

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Answer 2

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• He says, "The child has been crying since last night" ( Direct speech )

• He tells that the child has been crying since the last night ( Indirect speech)

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