sarala said "lata grows nothing in my garden"
rewrite into the reported speech
please write the accurate answer
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Answer :
This question is based on direct and indirect speech.
The given sentence is in direct speech.
Direct Speech : Sarala said "Lata grows nothing in my garden."
Cambridge English Dictionary defines "direct speech" as "When you use direct speech, you repeat what someone has said using exactly the words they used."
The given sentence, correctly converted to indirect speech, is :
Indirect Speech : Sarala said that Lata grew nothing in her garden.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines "indirect speech" as "the act of reporting something that was said, but not using exactly the same words."
Answer: Reported speech is something when someone else reports the words of another person.
This can be done in direct speech quoting the person or in indirect speech.
The tense, the word order of the words or the pronouns vary in the reported speech.
The given statement can be written in reported speech as “Sarala said that Lata would not grow anything in her garden.”