Report the following dialogue:
Conductor: Where do you want to go?
Passenger: I’m going to Coimbatore. Give me a ticket, please.
Answers
The conductor enquired where the passenger wanted to go.
The passenger replied that he/she was going to Coimbatore and politely asked for a ticket.
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).
- For example: If you hear your parents' conversation, and you want to share the details with your friend, you will do so in reported speech.
How to report a dialogue?
These simple steps will guide you:
- Remove all quotation marks
- Use words like 'asked', 'replied', 'enquired' (in case of a question) to hold the sentence together
- Change the tense to the past tense (except when dealing with facts or regular routine things)
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Answer:
The reported form of the dialogue is as follows -
The conductor asked the passenger where he wanted to go. The passenger replied that he was going to Coimbatore and further requested the conductor to give him a ticket.
Explanation:
- 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".
- In case of imperative sentence, we use the verbs like "ordered", "requested" or "advised".
- If the reporting speech is in interrogative or imperative sentence, in reported speech it will be changed into assertive sentence.
Here a conversation between the conductor and the passenger has been reported by following all the rules of Narration.
Thus the reported form is -
The conductor asked the passenger where he wanted to go. The passenger replied that he was going to Coimbatore and further requested the conductor to give him a ticket.
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