Robert asked, "Joan how old are you? "I am 13 years old" , she replied. change to indirect speech
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Robert asked Joan how old was she, she replied that she was 13 years old.
Explanation:
- There are two types of speech in English grammar i.e. direct and indirect.
- Indirect speech is the type of reported speech in which the main message of the speaker is conveyed without keeping the original order.
- Direct speech is also known as quoted speech as that reports the words uttered in the original form.
- In an indirect speech the words are not written in the order they were uttered by the original speaker.
- Unlike indirect speech, direct speech is written with inverted commas.
- The original speaker is mentioned in the sentence to report whose words are being written.
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Robert asked Joan how old she was. She replied that she was 13 years old
Explanation:
- When we report something in our "own words", we use indirect speech.
- In indirect speech the pronoun "I/" is changed to he, she, that is, the pronoun is changed in person
- The verb "am" in indirect speech is changed to "was", that is present tense is changed to past tense
- In indirect speech, simple past tense becomes past perfect tense, for example, Nitin said , "Meera arrived on Tuesday" (direct speech) becomes Nitin said that Meera had arrived on Tuesday
- In interrogative sentence , in indirect speech, the auxiliary verb comes after the pronoun. For example, He said to me, “What are you doing"? (direct seech), He asked me what I was doing.
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