Question

Reported speech mohan said me i have written a novel

Answer 1

Answer:

Mohan told me that he had written a novel.....

Answer 2

Answer:

• The indirect speech (reported speech) of the sentence is:

• Mohan told me that he had written a novel.

Explanation:

• There are two ways of communicating with a person:

1. Direct
2. Indirect.

• In direct speech, the exact words of the speakers are reported to a third person.
• In indirect speech, the exact meaning of the speaker is reported to the third person but not with the exact words.

• There are certain rules to convert direct speech to indirect speech. They are:
• Remove the commas and quotation marks.
• Finish the sentence with a full stop.
• The tenses within the inverted commas are changed to their corresponding past tense.

1. Simple present – simple past
2. Present continuous – past continuous
3. Present perfect – past perfect
4. Simple past – past perfect
5. Past continuous – past perfect continuous
6. Future simple – present condition
7. Future continuous – continuous conditional.

• If the sentence inside the inverted commas indicate a universal truth, there is no change in tense.
• Some words are also changed to indicate nearness. Examples are:

1. Now – then
2. Here – there
3. Today – that day
4. Tomorrow – the next day
5. Last week – the previous week
6. This – that
7. Tonight – that night
8. Ago - before
9. Thus – so
10. Hither – tither
11. Come – go
12. Hence – thence
13. Next - following