how to change direct speech into indirect and indirect speech into direct with examples
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Direct Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in his own actual words without any change.
Indirect Speech: the message of the speaker is conveyed or reported in our own words.
Example on Process of Conversion from Direct to Indirect Speech
a) Direct: Radha said, “I am very busy now.”
b) Indirect: Radha said that she was very busy then.
1. All inverted commas or quotation marks are omitted and the sentence ends with a full stop.
2. Conjunction ‘that’ is added before the indirect statement.
3. The pronoun ‘I’ is changed to ‘she’. (The Pronoun is changed in Person)
4. The verb ‘am’ is changed to ‘was’. (Present Tense is changed to Past)
5. The adverb ‘now’ is changed to ‘then’.
Answer:
There are rules in converting direct to indirect speech. The tense usually has change because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past).
1. Tense Change ; As a rule when we report something someone has said you go back a tense (the tense on the left changes to the tense on the right)(an we can use the Present Tense in indirect speech if we want to say that something is still true.)
2.Modal Change ; Modal verb forms also sometimes changeIf it use modal, such as: could, would, should, might and ought to in direct speech, then we don’t need to change it.
3. Time Change ; If direct speech sentence contains an expression of time, we must change it to fit in with the time.
4. verbs ; Some reporting verbs may appear in more than one of the following groups.