Question

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The lion said to the deer, "Could you run faster than horse?"​

Answer 1

Direct Speech : The lion said to the deer, "Could you run faster than horse?"

Indirect Speech : The lion asked the deer if it can run faster than horse .

More to know :

❇️ Convey the message given by the first person to the third person is termed as indirect speech.

❇️The person who conveys is the second person to whom the first person told the compliment or a sentence.

✴ Indirect speech is a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.

Some words alter in indirect speech in the following way :

✨ Now - Then

✨ Today - That day

✨Last night - previous night

✨ Said - Told

✨ Will be - would be

✨Tomorrow - The next day

✨ Yesterday - The previous day .

Answer 2

Answer:

Direct speech:

The lion said to the deer, "Could you run faster than horse.

Indirect speech:

The lion asked the deer if it can run faster then horse.

Additional information:

Indirect speech:

➜ He told her that, she was trying to insult me.

Direct speech:

➜ He said to her, "you are trying to insult me".

Direct speech definition:

➜ Direct speech is quote actual words of the speaker.

Indirect speech definition:

➜ Indirect speech reports the content said by the speaker without quoting exact words. This is "Reported speech".

Examples of direct and indirect speech:

Direct speech:

➜ Nayanshreyas, said "I have scored 100% marks in maths".

Indirect speech:

➜ Nayanshreyas said that he had scored 100% marks in maths.

Converting direct to indirect speech:

➜ Changing the tenses.

➜ Changing the pronouns.

➜ Changing the expression of the words for (Place, things, Time).