Question

rama Said I am catching fishes (change into indirect speech)
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Answer 1

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• Rama told that she was catching fishes.

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

Answer 2

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Change the given sentence to indirect speech:

→ Rama said, "I am catching fishes".

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• Direct Speech- Saying exactly what someone has said is called as direct speech.
• For example, She said, "I am writing a letter to my mother".

• Indirect Speech- Reporting someone's thought which he/she had said, without using that person's exact words is called as indirect speech.
• For example, She told that she was writing a letter to her mother.
• It is also called as Reported speech.

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→ Rama told that she was catching fishes.

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• Firstly, we have removed the inverted commas/quotation marks.
• Next we have changed "said" as "told".
• Then we have inserted the conjunction "that" before the direct statement.
• Next we have removed "I" and inserted "she" instead of it. Because we know that the pronouns of first and second person changes to third person in indirect speech.
• Then we have made an important change, that is changing the tense. It is given in Present progressive tense in the question. And as per the rule, we have changed it to past progressive tense.
• Finally we ended the sentence with a full stop.

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