Question

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Answer 1

Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.

Example: Alissa said,"I'm learning Science." (Direct)

                Alissa said that she was learning Science. (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 contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.

The radio jockey asked Wangari Maathai what the one thing they could do was. He replied saying that his greatest activity was to plant a tree and that he thinks that a tree is a wonderful symbol for the environment and when we plant a tree, plant hope. He also added that we must plant something that will last, long after we are gone.

Answer 2

Intially ,

❇️ Convey the message given by the first person to the third person is termed as indirect speech.

❇️The person who conveys is the second person to whom the first person told the compliment or a sentence.

✴ Indirect speech is a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.

Some words alter in indirect speech in the following way :

✨ Now - Then

✨ Today - That day

✨Last night - previous night

✨ Said - Told

✨ Will be - would be

✨Tomorrow - The next day

✨ Yesterday - The previous day

Indirect Speech Form of the given conversation :

The radio jockey asked Wangari Maathai what the one thing they could do was. She replied saying that her greatest activity was to plant a tree and that she thinks a tree is a wonderful symbol for the environment and when we plant a tree, we plant hope. She even told that we plant the future for ourselves , for the children , for the birds . She also added that we must plant something that will last, long after we are gone.