Read the following conservations and then report what was said by completing the following passage.
NEIGHBOUR: Hello,where are you going with that big table?
MORON: To a cloth shop.
NEIGHBOUR: What for?
MORON:I'm taking this to have it measured for a new table cloth.
A moron was struggling out of his house with a big table.His neighbour on seeing him asked (a)............................. with that big table. The moron replied that(b)......................... . The neighbour asked him(c).............................. . The moron explained that (d)............................ measured for a new table cloth.
Answers
Answer:
The reported form of the dialogue is as follows -
A moron was struggling out of his house with a big table. His neighbour on seeing him asked (a) where he was going with that big table. The moron replied that (b) he was going to a cloth shop . The neighbour asked him (c) what he was going for. The moron explained that (d) he was taking that to have it measured for a new table cloth.
Explanation:
What is reported speech?
Reported or indirect speech is when a conversation is expressed in words other than those exact words uttered by the speaker(s).
- In the reported speech, the given verbs are changed into past tense.
- In case of interrogative sentence, we use the verb "asked".
- In case of assertive sentence, we use the verbs like "told", "said" or "replied".
- If the reporting speech is in interrogative, in reported speech it will be changed into assertive sentence.
Here a conversation between Moron and his neighbour has been reported by following all the rules of narration.
Thus the reported speech will be-
A moron was struggling out of his house with a big table. His neighbour on seeing him asked (a) where he was going with that big table. The moron replied that (b) he was going to a cloth shop . The neighbour asked him (c) what he was going for. The moron explained that (d) he was taking that to have it measured for a new table cloth.