Question

mohan said to me."
you are
good girl​

Answer 1

${ \huge{ \rm{Direct – Indirect}}}$

${ \rm{Mohan \: told \: me \: that \: I \: was \: a \: good \: girl.}}$

${ \rm{ \underline{Indirect \: Speech \: rules :}}}$

• Indirect Speech gives the substance of the speaker's actual words and not the the exact words spoken by him or her is termed as Indirect Speech.

• Inverted commas are removed.

• The comma separating the reporting verb from the reported speech is removed.

• Reported Speech is introduced by a conjunction like – that, if, what, why, etc....

• Reporting Verb changes according to the sense.

• The Tense of the Reporting Verb is never changed.

• All kinds of sentences change into Assertive ones.

• The mark of interrogation (?) and the mark of exclamation (!) at the end of the sentence are changed into full stops.

• Words of direct speech will turn to indirect in the following way :

• Now – then
• Today – that day
• Tonight – that night
• Yesterday – the day before or the previous day
• Thus – so
• Ago – before or
• Hence – thence

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Answer 2

$\: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \:$

$\huge\bold{\blue{Direct \: Indirect \: Speech}}$

Mohan said to me "You are a good girl"

$\huge{\mathfrak\blue{Answer}}$

Mohan told me that I was a good girl.

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