Question

The teacher said to Amol,"you can work hard now".

Answer 1

Answer:

Teacher said to amol that he can work hard then..

Answer 2

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Speech :-

➨ The teacher said to Amol, "You can work hard now".

• ✠ Indirect Speech :-

➨ The teacher told Amol that he could work hard then.

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❍ NOTE :-

• ✎ When "Can" is there in the sentence of Direct Speech and the Reporting verb is in Past Tense form; in Indirect Speech, "Can" is changed to "Could".

• ✎ When the reporting verb of Direct Speech is "Said to", it is changed to "Told" in Indirect Speech.

• The time phrase "Now" in Direct Speech is changed to "Then" in Indirect Speech.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech

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❒ Direct Speech :-

• ➬ In Direct Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Speech and there we need to use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Speech.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Speech is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Speech, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Speech.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct speech to Indirect Speech.