Question

Rekha said to me, "Where did you go yesterday?" (N.C.)​

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Narration :-

➨ Rekha said to me, "Where did you go yesterday ?"

• ✠ Indirect Narration :-

➨ Rekha asked me where I had gone the previous day.

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ In case of an interrogative sentence, if the sentence in Direct Narration is in Simple Past Tense; it is changed to Past Perfect Tense in Indirect Narration.

• ✎ If the interrogative sentence starts with a wh-question word, then the wh-question word is used as conjunction in Indirect Narration.

• ✎ The time phrase "yesterday" in Direct Narration is changed to "the previous day/ the day before."

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Narration :-

• ➬ Direct Narration

• ➬ Indirect Narration

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❒ Direct Narration :-

• ➬ In Direct Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Narration and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Narration.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Narration is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Narration :-

• ➬ In Indirect Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Narration, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Narration.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct Narration to Indirect Narration.