Question

Please tell me the rules of direct and indirect speech

Answer 1

General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech. Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop. If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.

Answer 2

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$<b> RULES OF DIRECT & INDIRECT$
We change direct into indirect speech, pronouns, tense and words indicating nearness undergo changes.


▶TENSE

✴If the reporting verb is in the present past future tense, the tense of the verb in the reported speech does not change.

✴If the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the verb in the reported speech is changed into its corresponding past tense.

Exceptions for the above rule :

☑ In case of universal truth or habitual facts.
☑ in case of historical facts.
☑ in case of hypothetical conditions.

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▶ PRONOUNS

✴We change personal pronoun in the first person used in indirect speech according to the subject of the reporting verb in indirect speech.

✴ We change personal pronoun in the second person in direct speech according to the object of the reporting verb.

✴ Personal pronoun in the third person do not change in indirect speech.

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▶WORDS INDICATING NEARNESS

while passing from direct to indirect speech, words expressing nearness in time and place generally changed into words expressing distance.
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