she said to her husband, 'Where has all this money come from? How did you get it? To whom does it belong?' indirect speech.
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She asked her husband that where did had all that money come from, how did he get that money and to whom did it belong.
What is indirect speech?
- In the field of English linguistics, when we use our own words to mention what someone has said, then such a speech is referred to as indirect speech.
- We do not use inverted commas or quotation marks when using indirect speech.
- 'This' is changed to 'that' in indirect speech.
She asked her husband where all that money had came from, how you had got it, whom it belonged to.
The given complete sentence is in the direct form.
The indirect speech is the form of speech where the content is reported by the third person.
The given sentences are interrogative and while writing indirect form the questions marks are eliminated.
While the sequence of interrogative sentence changes to simple sentences that is subject + verb (helping +main) + object.
The present form is converted to past and past to past perfect.
Direct speech: she said to her husband, 'Where has all this money come from? How did you get it? To whom does it belong?'
Indirect speech: She asked her husband where all that money had came from, how you had got it, whom it belonged to.
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