Question

He says to his friend,“I have been reading.”(Write the sentence in reported speech)

Answer 1

Given Sentence:

• He says to his friend,“I have been reading.”

Required Answer:

• He said to his friend that he had been reading.

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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

★Know 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 :-

1. 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:-

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

Answer 2

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