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Question: change the form of narration
1. Mr Kapoor said " I bought a car "

Answer 1

Answer:

Mr. Kapoor said that he bought a car.

Answer 2

Question:-

Change the form of narration:-

1. Mr Kapoor said " I bought a car "

Answer:-

1. Mr Kapoor told that he had bought a car .

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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