Read the following conversation and change the underlined sentence into reported speech: Waseem : Vasu, what’s your hobby? Vasu: My hobby is writing poems.
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waseem said to vasu that what is his hobby?
vasu replied that his hobby is writing.
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- Waseem asked Vasu what his hobby was.
- Vasu replied that his hobby was writing poems.
About reported speech:
- The sentence that is given in direct speech must be changed into indirect speech.
- When a sentence is changed into indirect speech, the comma and quotation marks must be removed.
- The entire sentence is converted into past tense. That is the verbs take the past tense form.
- The person within the quotation marks must be changed in reported form accordingly.
Converting the dialogue:
- In the first dialogue, we have an interrogative statement. So the question mark must be removed in reported speech and we must used 'asked' because it is a question.
- We are changing question form to indirect form of speech, the noun will precede the verb.
- The verb will be converted into past. So 'is' in 'what's' becomes 'was'.
- The person 'your' changes into 'his'.
- So it becomes: Waseem asked Vasu what his hobby was.
- In the second dialogue, we see there is a response to the question asked. So we have to write 'replied'.
- The person 'my' becomes 'his' and the verb 'is' becomes 'was'.
- Thus the answer is: Vasu replied that his hobby was writing poems.
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