Question

The visitor said I want to speak to you on this point

Answer 1

Indirect Speech: The visitor said that he wanted to speak to me on that point.

What is Indirect speech?

• There are two types of narration in English grammar:

          1. Direct speech  2. Indirect speech.

• In direct speech, the exact words of the speaker are quoted in inverted commas.
• While indirect speech is quoted as reported speech that describes what someone else said.
• To change direct speech into indirect speech, changed the present tense into the past tense.
• In the given sentence, 'want' is changed into the past indefinite tense 'wanted.'
• Moreover, 'this' is changed into 'that', and 'these' is changed into ''these.'

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Answer 2

Answer:

We have to turn the above sentence into an indirect speech and it is : -

They visitor said that he wanted to speak to me on that point.

Explanation :

• The given reporting verb is written in simple past tense and reported speech is written in simple present tense. When direct speech turns into indirect speech, simple present tense turns into simple past tense and it is mentioned above.

• The reported speech is an example of Assertive Sentence because it is asserting something. In Assertive sentence, introductory conjunction 'that' is used after reporting verb in indirect speech.

• Above 'wanted' is simple past form of 'want'. Here 'you' indicates 'me' because the visitor wanted to speak to ( you ) me. 'This' turns into 'that' in indirect speech.

• Example : Sumana says, "Arnav is a good boy." Its indirect speech is : Sumana says that Arnav is a good boy.

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