Question

The teacher often says to me, "If you don't work hard, You will fail".
Change to indirect speech.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The teacher often tells me that If I did not work hard ,I would fail

Answer 2

The answer is as follows:

The teacher often says to me that if I don't work hard, I will fail.

Direct and Indirect Speech

• Direct speech refers to the statements spoken directly by the speaker. Indirect speech refers to the reported speech. It is the speech repeated by someone else. Direct and indirect speech together is called Narration.

• The tense of the subordinate clause follows the tense of the reporting clause. In the given sentence, the reporting verb is in the simple present tense. Thus, the tense of the subordinate clause also remains in the present tense.

• The simple future tense also remains the same, as there will be no changes in the tense of the indirect speech.

• 'You' changes to 'I.' Everything else remains the same.

• The reporting and the subordinate clauses are joined by the word 'that.'

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