Question

" they said "sarla is writing a letter" change it to indirect form of speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

Direct Speech-

They said, "Sarla is writing a letter."

Indirect Speech-

They told that Sarla was writing a letter.

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When the reporting verb is in the past tense the verb normally change as follows:

(a) Simple present changes to the Simple past.

(b) Present continuous changes to the past continuous.

(c) Present perfect changes to the past perfect.

(d) Simple past changes to the past perfect.

(e) The will-can-may forms change to the would-could-might forms.

( The past perfect and past continuous start the same. )

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Answer 2

Direct Speech : They said , "Sarla is writing a letter"

Indirect Speech : They said that Sarla was writing a letter

Additional Information :

• Direct Speech is the representation of the actual words spoken
• Usually quotation marks paly a key role and act as identification mark for direct speech
• Indirect speech , also termed as reported speech is a bit modified version
• Indirect Speech usually has many modifications but with a presence of mind you can understand it very easily
• There is a change in tense , as per given , the statement in direct is in Present Continuous and thus is changed to Past Continuous Tense
• That plays a key role in indirect speech
• Even , the most important part is that all types of sentences are changed to declarative in reported speech !!