Question

Indirect speech for the sentence 'He said to me," Open your book." is.....

Answer 1

he said to me, "open your book". (Direct speech)

He told me to open my book. (Indirect speech)

There are two kinds of speeches.

1. Direct Speech:

In Direct speech, we repeat the exact words by the speaker. Reporting speech is placed between inverted commas. For example, He said, " I have lost my pen".

2. Indirect Speech:

In Indirect Speech, we repeat in our own words what is said by the speaker. generally, we use "said that" in this speech. For example, He said that he had lost his pen.

Answer 2

Given Sentence:

He said to me," Open your book." (Indirect Speech)

AnsweR:

• He asked me to open my book (Direct Speech)

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★How the tense changed?

• Present Simple → Past Simple

• Present Continuous → Past Continuous

• Present Perfect → Past Perfect

• Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

• Past Simple → Past Perfect

• Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

• Past Perfect → No change

• Past Perfect Continuous → No change

★There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

★For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to us your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

1. My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
2. My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

★Related information:-

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb