Question

Mira said to me,"I want to buy some mangoes."​

Answer 1

Correct Question: Change the given sentence into indirect speech.

✬ ANSWER ✬

➟ Mira told me that she wanted to buy some mangoes.

• Direct Speech: Saying directly that what someone has said is known as direct speech.

• Indirect Speech : Reporting what somebody has said , without using the actual words is called indirect speech.

[ Some rules for changing sentences ]

• 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

Answer 2

Correct Question:

Change the given sentence into indirect speech.

Solution:-

• Mira told me that she wanted to buy some mangoes.

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Explore more:-

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 your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)

• 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