rules to convert direct tho indirect speech for different tenses
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General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech. Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop. If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.
QUESTION:
What are the Rules to convert direct to indirect for different tenses
ANSWER:
☞The rules to convert direct to indirect for different tenses are given below
→The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.
→In the reported speech words denoting first person (I, my,me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) change according to the object.
→Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’ ; ‘now into then’ ; ‘here’ into ‘there’ ; ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’ ; ‘Yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.
SOME MORE TO KNOW:
DEFINATION OF DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH:
☞Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.
☞Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view
WHEN QUESTIONS ARE REPORTED:
➜Indirect questions beginning with auxillary verbs are introduced by ‘if’ or ‘whether’.
➜Indirect ‘wh-questions’ are introduced by the ‘wh-wod’ which begins the question in the direct speech.
➜Word order is inverted, e.g.
‘Why are you making noise?’ becomes ‘Why they are making noise’