Natalya : The weather is so splendid now ,but yesterday it was so wet that the woekmen didn't do anything all day .How many hay have you stacked ?Just think ,i felt greedy and had a whole field cut ,and now I am not all pleased about it because I'm afraid my hay may rot. change into indirect speech.
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Natalya said that the weather was splendid then, the previous day it was so wet that the workmen didn't do anything all day.
She asked Lomov that how many hays had he stacked.
She continued that she felt greedy and had a whole field cut, and then she was not at all pleased about it because she was afraid that her hay may rot.
What elements got changed in this paragraph, has been marked in bold.
So, the things that mainly needs to be concentrated in is "yesterday" changes to "the previous day".
Similarly, "today" will change to "that day", and "tomorrow" will change to "the next/ following day".
then, the previous day
had he stacked
was afraid
Direct speech in represented between a pair of inverted commas while indirect speech is reporting of someone's statement afterwards.
Direct speech can be used in every tense in the statement. we can use it to describe something in the present tense i.e. something that is happening at the present moment.
Example- Ram says, "I am afraid of insects".
Indirect speech is used to report what someone may have said, and so it is always used in the past tense. Instead of using inverted commas as in direct speech, we use the word “that” to introduce the statement.
Example- Ram said that he is afraid of insects.