Question

I said to him, "good bye, may you succeed? "

Answer 1

I bid him goodbye and wished him success .

this is the indirect speech.

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Answer 2

Complete Question:

I said to him, "goodbye, may you succeed."- Narration change.

Answer:

I bid goodbye and wished him that he might succeed.           

Explanation:

• The utterance or sentence that a speaker says is called speech. We can present the speech of a speaker in two forms –

• a. By directly saying the speaker's exact words. This is called Direct Speech or narration since we do not make any change to the speech of a speaker at the time of saying it.

• b. We may narrate what the speaker said without directly quoting his/her same words. This is called Indirect Speech (Indirect Narration) or reported speech since we make changes to the speech of the speaker at the time of reporting it.    

• Direct speech has two basic parts – i) Reporting Verb, and ii) Reported Speech.                          

• The given sentence is an optative sentence which expresses hope, prayer or wish.

In changing Optative Sentence into Indirect speech –

• The Reporting Verb is converted into ‘wish’ or ‘pray’.

• ‘That’ is used as a linking verb.

• The Optative form is converted into a statement.

• If the reported speech starts with 'may', then the reporting verb 'said' is replaced with the word "prayed/wished".

Therefore, the indirect speech for the given sentence would be-

I bid goodbye and wished him that he might succeed.

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