should we convert the direct speech to indirect one while answering a question from an unseen passage?
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1. Changes in reporting verb
Affirmative sentences: said, told (object), asserted, replied, assured, informed, responded, whispered, alleged, believed, assumed, thought
Interrogative sentences: asked, inquired, wanted to know, enquired
Imperative sentences: ordered, begged, pleaded, implored, advised, demanded
2. Change of pronouns
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Meeta said, ‘I live in Himachal’.’ Meeta said that he lived in Himachal.
The conjunction that is used to connect the reporting verb with what is said.
A first-person and second-person generally change to third person (depending upon object to reporting verb)
In case the reporting verb is in present, the tense of verb in reported speech continues to remain in the present tense.
3. Change of tenses
When we report something after a certain period of time, and what we are talking about has already happened, we change the tense of the sentence being reported into a corresponding past tense. Read the following table carefully.
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Kalpana said, ‘I teach in a school.’ Kalpana said that she taught in a school.
Kalpana said, ‘I am teaching in a school.’ Kalpana said that she was teaching in a school.
Kalpana said, ‘I have taught in a school.’ Kalpana said that she had taught in a school.
Kalpana said, ‘I have been teaching in a school for the past one year. ’ Kalpana said that she had been teaching in a school for the past one year.
Kalpana said, ‘I taught in a school for two years.’ Kalpana said that she had taught in a school for two years.
Kalpana said, ‘I was working at a call centre before I started teaching.’ Kalpana said that she had been working at a call centre before she started teaching.