Question

Ram said to him, Does suresh go to school"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ram asked him whether Suresh goes to school.

Answer 2

Given Sentence:

1) Ram said to him, Does suresh go to school"?

• Ram asked him whether Suresh goes to school.

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★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

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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