Question

. The leader said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am thankful to you all. change into indirect
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Answer 1

Answer

The leader told ladies and gentlemen that he was thankful to all of them.

Extra Information

In order to change direct speech to indirect we should be care full about these following things :

• Kind of sentence
• Tense of verb
• Persons of pronouns
• Change of some words

In the above question also all these things has been changed carefully

• Tense of reported speech has been changed from present indifinite to past indifinite
• Pronouns are also changed here in the given narration i.e. I ➡he and you ➡ them.

Answer 2

Question :

The leader said, " Ladies and Gentlemen, I am thankful to you all". (change into indirect speech)

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Addressing as Ladies and Gentlemen the leader said that he/she was thankful to them all.

Explore More :

There are two kinds of narration or speech.

• Direct Speech
• Indirect Speech

A. Direct Speech :-

• what a man says is kept as it is within a quotation mark(" "). A sentence containing such a quote is called the Direct speech.
• We use direct speech when we repeat someone's words.
• Direct speech has 3 parts---

1. The speaker
2. Reporting Verb
3. reported speech

B. Indirect speech :-

• sometimes the exact speech of a speaker is not repeated but reported. such a speech is called Indirect speech.
• we use indirect speech when we use our own words to report someone says.

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