Report the dialogue vijay:why are u late today?ajay:I missed the school bus.
Answers
Answer:
Vijay asked Ajay why he was late that day.
Ajay replied that he had missed the school bus.
Explanation:
When we report an interrogative sentence. The reporting verb 'said to' is changed into 'asked', enquired' or 'wanted to know'.When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object pronouns or nouns.