Question

III EXERCISE 3 Change the following sentences into Indirect speech 1. Rama said to Mohan, "The sun is bigger than the moon." 2. The teacher said to me, "The earth moves round the sun. 3. My father said to him, "The earth is round." 4. He said to me, "The moon is not hot like the sun." 5. I said to you, "Two and two make four." 6. Shila said to Mira, "Gold is yellow and silver is white." 7. The principal said, "The sun sets in the west." 8. A said to C, "Dogs bark at strangers." 9. I said to him, "Birds fly in the sky." 10. Radha said to you, "Honesty is the best policy."
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. Rama told Mohan that the sun is bigger than the moon.
2. The teacher told me that the earth moves round the sun.
3. My father told him that the earth is round.
4. He told me that the moon is not hot like the sun.
5. I told you that two and two make four.
6. Shila told Mira that gold is yellow and silver is white.
7. The principal said that the sun sets in the west.
8. A told C that dogs bark at strangers.
9. I told him that birds fly in the sky.
10. Radha told you that honesty is the best policy.

Note that here, sometimes, ‘that’ is not used in day to day conversations, however it's good to keep it in your exercise answers as your teacher may consider it important.

Explanation:

In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it.

In above exercise we used common conversions — said to → told and usage of that. Also, here statements were facts, so we kept them as they were given.

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