Question

reported speech
.. Manjula - hello ,savitri how are you ?
savitri- fine ,thank you ?
manjula - fine thanks when are you going to mumbai .
savitri - i am going to mumbai on sunday .
Manjula and Savitri greeted each others . Manjula asked.........................................
savitri replied.................................

Answer 1

Indirect/Reported Speech refers to a dialogue being told to a third person/reporting what happened to a third person.

Example: Krista said,"Where is she going?" (Direct)

                Krista asked where she was going. (Indirect)

In the above example, when writing in indirect/reported form, the sentence changes according to its tense. Also, modifications regarding certain words like 'this' changes to 'that', 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day', 'will' changes to 'would', 'can' changes to 'could' and many other words have to be made. Also, if the sentence is contains an interrogation, then 'said' changes to 'asked'. Punctuation marks other than a full stop (.) cannot be used in indirect/reported speech.

Manjula asked when she was going to Mumbai.

Savitri replied that she was going to Mumbai on Sunday.

Answer 2

Question:-

Change to Indirect Speech:

Manjula - When are you going to Mumbai ?

Savitri - I am going to Mumbai on Sunday.

Answer:-

Manjula asked when she was going to Mumbai.

Savitri replied that she was going to Mumbai on Sunday.

Here,

1st statement:

So, 'asked' has been used instead of  'that' in first statement as it is Interrogative.

'you' changed to 'she' as it was meant for the listener.

2nd statement:

'I' changed to 'she' as it was meant for the listener.

What is Direct/Indirect Speech ?

Direct Speech: It involves writing the actual words of the speaker within Inverted Commas.

Indirect Speech: It involves changing the words of the speaker by changing the tense to narrate to the some other person.