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Explanation:
Transformation of Sentence: Direct & Indirect Speech
By Jayanta Kumar Maity
A direct speech can be transformed into an indirect speech and vice versa using a suitable reporting verb and a linker depending on the sentence. Let’s have an example first.
Tina said to me, “Are you busy now?” [direct speech]
Tina asked me whether I was busy then. [indirect speech]
Direct Speech
Speaker Reporting verb Direct speech
Tina said “Are you busy now?”
Indirect Speech
Speaker Reporting verb Linker Reported Speech
Tina asked whether I was busy then.
Look, if the reporting verb in direct speech (said) is in past tense, the reporting verb in indirect speech (asked) would also be in past tense. ‘Whether’ is the linker added here as it is a ‘yes-no’ type question (Refer to list 1 below).
‘Are’ changes to ‘was’. As the reporting verb was in past tense, the verb in the reported speech will also be in past. (Refer to list 2 below)
‘Now’ has become ‘then’. Time and place expressions change if the reporting verb is in past tense. (Refer to list 3 below)
The question mark (?) has changed to a full stop(.).
Another important thing, the format of question (v + s + o) has changed to the format of a statement (s + v + o). In indirect speech the pattern always comes to subject + verb + object.