Question

Ram said that he hated the
miscreants,
(Change into direct speech)​

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Indirect Speech :-

➨ He said that he hated the miscreants.

• ✠ Direct Speech :-

➨ He said, "I hate the miscreants".

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ If the speaker's words in Direct Sentence is in Simple Present Tense and the reporting verb is in Past form; then the sentence is changed to Simple Past Tense in Indirect Speech. Similarly, if the sentence in Indirect Speech is in Simple Past Tense and the reported verb is in Past form, then the Speaker's words in the Direct Speech will be in Simple Present Tense.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech

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❒ Direct Speech :-

• ➬ In Direct Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Speech and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Speech.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Speech is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Speech, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Speech.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct speech to Indirect Speech.