Question

Put the following into indirect speech:

3) He said, “ I had never been to America​

Answer 1

Question :-

Put the following into indirect speech :-

He said, "I had never been to America".

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Answer :-

The given sentence when changed into it's indirect speech, becomes,

He said that he had never been America.

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Extra Information :-

Given below are some rules regarding Indirect Speech :-

• Omit the commas, inverted commas (quotation marks).
• The end of the sentence should be with a full stop.
• If the verb in the inverted commas (quotation marks) is in Present Tense, make sure to change it into its corresponding Past Tense.

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Answer 2

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Put the following into indirect speech:

• 3) He said, “ I had never been to America

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• He said that he had never been america.

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More information:-

Direct speech:

• when the exact word used by a speaker are reproduced within Quotation Marks, it is called Direct speech.

Indirect speech:

• when the substance of a speech is conveyed in the reporter's words, it is called Indirect speech.

The exact words of the speaker which are put within Quotation Marks or Inverted Commas ("..") is the Reported Speech.

The verb that introduces the Reported Speech is called the Reporting Verb.

Rᴜʟᴇs ᴏғ Cʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ

⠀⠀Dɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ Iɴᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ Sᴘᴇᴇᴄʜ:

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★When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense, all Present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding Past Tenses.

★The Tense in Indirect Speech is NOT CHANGED if the words within the quotation marks talk of a universal truth or habitual action.

★Simple Present Changes to Simple Past

★Present Perfect Changes to Past Perfect

★Present Continuous Changes to Past Continuous

★Simple Past Changes to Past Perfect

★Past Continuous Changes to Past Perfect Continuous

★Future Changes to Present Conditional

★Future Continuous Changes to Conditional Continuous

⠀⠀⠀⠀Cʜᴀɴɢᴇ ɪɴ Mᴏᴅᴀʟs:

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⟶CAN changes into COULD

⟶MAY changes into MIGHT

⟶MUST changes into HAD TO/WOULD HAVE TO

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