Ram says to rehim ,I am eighteen years old"(report the following sentence in indirect speech)
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Answer:
He said that,he is eighteen year old to rehim
Explanation:
Ram said to Rahim that he is eighteen years old. (Indirect speech).
KNOW MORE:-
✧ Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.
✧ Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.
Examples:-
☉ Sam said, “The sports day is on 23rd this month.” (Direct speech)
Sam said that that the sports day is on 23rd this month. (Indirect speech)
☉ Riya said to Rohan, “Do you want some apple pie?”(direct speech)
Riya asked to Rohan that did he want some apple pie. (Indirect speech)
REMEMBER:-
✧ The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.
✧ In the reporting speech, words denoting first
person (I, my, me, mine, myself, we, our, is, ours,
ourselves) change according to the subject and works denoting second person (you, your, Lyours,yourself, yourselves) change according to the subject.
✧ Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’, ‘now’ into ‘then’, ‘here’ into ‘there’, ‘tomorrow’ into next day’, ‘yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. ‘Then’ is usually dropped.
✿ When questions are reported:-
☞ Indirect questions beginning with auxillary verbs are introduced by ‘if’ or ‘weather’.
☞ Indirect ‘wh-questions’ are introduced by the ‘wh-word’ which begins the question in the direct speech.
☞ Word order is inverted, e.g.
‘Why are you making noise?’ ⟵(direct speech) becomes ‘Why they are making noise?’ ⟵(Indirect speech)