Question

The teacher said to the students. "I shall take you to the museum tomorrow". Change into reported speech

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Speech :-

➨ The teacher said to the students. "I shall take you to the museum tomorrow."

• ✠ Reported Speech :-

➨ The teacher told the students that he would take them to the museum the next day.

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ If the reporting verb of Direct Speech is "said to"; it is changed to "told" in Indirect Speech.

• ✎ The time phrase "Tomorrow" in Direct Speech is changed to "The next day/ The following day" in Indirect Speech.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech or Reported 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 ti 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 / Reported Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, (also known as Reported 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.