Mohan said, "I met Radha yesterday "
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Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.
Example: Charles said,"I am going to the library." (Direct)
Charles said that he was going to the library. (Indirect)
In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence is contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.
Mohan said,"I met Radha yesterday." (Direct)
Mohan said that he had met Radha the previous day. (Indirect)
∆ Mohan told that/said that he had met Radha the previous day .
Rules to follow ...
• The inverted commas and normal commas need to be removed .
• There has to be change of tense , basically it is changed to Past forms because Indirect speech is told at a different time .
• The pronouns are changed as there is a different speaker conveying the Direct speech words .
• Some words which are changed from Direct to Indirect speech are :-
Yesterday - The previous day
Today - That day
Tomorrow - The next day
Can - Could
May - Might
Will - Would
Shall - Should
Above words are used most commonly while narration change .