How to change direct to indirect
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General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech
Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop.
If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense. If it is in the simple past tense, change it into the past perfect tense.
Direct speech: The girl said, ‘I like singing.’
Indirect speech: The girl said that she liked singing.
Direct speech: Rahul said, ‘I will have to reach home by 8.30.’
Indirect speech: Rahul said that he would have to reach home by 8.30.
Direct speech: Alina said, ‘I met James yesterday.’
Indirect speech: Alina said that she had met James yesterday.
When the verb inside the quotation marks expresses a universal truth, we do not normally change it into the past tense.
He said, ‘All people have equal rights.’
He said that all people have equal rights. (More natural than ‘He said that all people had equal rights.’)
Use pronouns appropriately.
Study the examples given below.
Direct speech: The boy told the girl, ‘I told you that we were not going on a holiday.’
Indirect speech: The boy told the girl that he had told her that they were not going on a holiday.
The answer has been given below.
Explanation:
Direct speech is the reported speech of the person said or told in exactly the same way as it was spoken by him/her. Whereas an Indirect speech is the new and slightly modified way of reporting the words said by the speaker in the words of the one relaying the speech.
In a direct speech, the use of commas and inverted commas is necessary whereas it is the exact contrary for an indirect speech.
When changing any speech from a direct speech to an indirect speech, it is pertinent to use the word "that" to indicate the start of the speech of the reported person.
Change of the nouns or first persons to their corresponding pronouns is also mandatory.
And most importantly, the tense of the verbs must be changed from present to past, or accordingly.
For example, the sentence
I said, "He wants to go home" is a direct speech. So, in an indirect speech, it will become : I said that he wanted to go home.
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