Question

She said, "I wil be 16 years old tomorrow" change to indirect speech

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Speech :-

➨ She said, "I wil be 16 years old tomorrow".

• ✠ Indirect Speech :-

➨ She said that she would be 16 years old the following day.

Or,

➨ She said that she would be 16 years old the next day.

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❍ NOTE :-

• ✎ When "will" is there in the sentence of Direct Speech and the Reporting verb is in Past Tense form; in Indirect Speech, "will" is changed to "would".

• ✎ The time phrase "Tomorrow" in Direct Speech is changed to "The following day" or "The next day" in Indirect Speech.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech

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❒ Direct Speech :-

• ➬ In Direct Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Speech and there we need to use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Speech.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Speech is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Speech, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Speech.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct speech to Indirect Speech.