"I don't know how to swim", he said. (Change to indirect).
Answers
Answer:
He said that he doesn't know how to swim.
Answer:
The indirect speech is as follows:-
He said that he did not know how to swim.
Explanation:
✰ Direct speech conveys the exact words quoted by the speaker using inverted commas.
✰ Indirect speech conveys the words the speaker said without using inverted commas.
To change the given sentence from direct speech to indirect speech,
✦ The inverted commas quoting the statement were removed.
✦ The reporting verb was replaced by 'said that'. In affirmative sentences, 'Said' becomes 'said that', 'told', 'informed', 'declared' etc.
✦ Words are to be changed into their indirect form.
⁕ Ago - before
⁕ Now - then
⁕ Today - that day
⁕ Yesterday - the previous day
⁕ Tomorrow - the next day
✦ The tense of the sentence has to be changed to its corresponding past tense. For example:-
- Present simple tense ➝ past simple tense
- Present perfect tense ➝ past perfect tense
- Present continuous tense ➝ past continuous tense