Question

indirect speech
Have you seen this film Jaini said to Prakash.
"Yes, twice" said prakash.
"How is it?"
"Very nice. Go and watch it.​

Answer 1

Jaini asked Prakash if he had seen this film.

Prakash agreed that he had seen it twice.

Jaini further asked Prakash how it was.

Prakash told Jaini that it was very nice and suggested her to go and watch it.

• Direct speech and indirect speech are the two ways to relate what someone has said.
• The precise words of the original speaker are reproduced in the direct speech.
• In indirect speech, the exact meaning of what the speaker said is expressed, though not always in the speaker's exact words.
• In our case, the whole conversation is to be converted to indirect speech.
• So it's essentially a conversion from direct to indirect speech.
• We must use a reporting verb and the appropriate tense for this.
• For question based sentences, within the sentence, the word 'if' or 'whether' is used before the reported speech.
• This is exactly why we have added 'if' during the conversion of the first sentence.

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