Question

Meera said to her mother, "I visited my uncle yesterday." Change into indirect

Answer 1

Answer:

Meera told her mother that she visited her uncle the day before.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct indirect narration is-

Meera told her mother that she had visited her uncle the previous day.                          

Explanation:

• In linguistics, indirect narration refers to the grammatical construction often used for reporting the speech or words of the speaker without altering the meaning.  

• Indirect speech or narration also spelt as reported speech use no quotation or speech marks and is presented with some modifications conveying the same meaning.

• When creating indirect from Direct/ repeating speech, the simple past tense will be changed into the past perfect tense, first-person & pronoun (I, my, me, mine, we, our, us, ours) & reporting Verb Subject (doer) of person, number changes according to gender and words showing nearness of time or position changes.

• Hence visited changes to had visited, my changes to her and yesterday to the previous day.

Therefore as per the rules for reporting someone's speech, the given sentence will be-

Meera told her mother that she had visited her uncle the previous day.

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