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Change into indirect speech:-

4) He said to her, "I help you because you are a good girl."
5)Ram said to Geeta,"I am not going to help you."
20) The poor men said to me,"You should help us because we depend on you."​

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Answered by Anonymous
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Answer:

He told her that he helped her because she was a good girl.

Ram told Geeta that he was going to help her.

The poor men told me that I should help them because they depended on me.

Explanation:

When reporting to the indirect speech, the past tenses are used because the words have already been said before by some one else.

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Answered by Sitααrα
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Question:-

Change the following into indirect speech:-

  • He said to her, "I help you because you are a good girl."
  • Ram said to Geeta,"I am not going to help you."
  • The poor men said to me,"You should help us because we depend on you."

Answer:

  • He told her that he helped her because she was a good girl.
  • Ram told Geeta that he was going to help her.
  • The poor men told me that I should help them because they depended on me.

How the tense changed?

  • Present Simple → Past Simple

  • Present Continuous → Past Continuous

  • Present Perfect → Past Perfect

  • Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

  • Past Simple → Past Perfect

  • Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

  • Past Perfect - No change

  • Past Perfect Continuous - No change

Explore more:-

There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

  • My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)

  • My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

Related information:-

  • The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“”) is called Reported speech.

  • The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb
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