Question

Ram said, "I met him last year

Answer 1

Answer:

hm what to do then ????????

Answer 2

Complete question:

Ram said, "I met him last year." Change the narration.

Answer:

Ram said that he had met him the previous year.

Explanation:

• Speech narration in English is a helpful approach for describing what someone said, which can be done directly or indirectly depending on the type of conversation.

• Thus, we convey the speaker’s message in our own words. Thus, the information can be represented in 2 ways.- 1. Direct Speech and 2. Indirect Speech

• Direct speech is known as repeating the exact words spoken by the speaker and Indirect speech or reported speech is known as reporting the words.

• The given sentence is in direct speech since it is enclosed by quotation/speech marks.
• While converting the narration to indirect/reported speech, certain rules need to be followed and changes are done as per the tenses.
• The reported speech is in the past tense (Subject +verb 2+ object), which can be changed to past perfect (Subject+had+Verb 3+ object) in indirect speech.

Therefore, the above-mentioned sentence can be written in indirect speech as-

Ram said that he had met him the previous year.

#SPJ3