Question

They said,"we are veterans." Inderect speech

Answer 1

• Answer :-

→ They said that they were veterans.

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Answer 2

★Required AnSwEr:

Direct Speech: They said,"we are veterans."

Indirect speech: They told that they were veterans.

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★How the tense changed?

Present Simple → Past Simple

Present Continuous → Past Continuous

Present Perfect → Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple → Past Perfect

Past Continuous → Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect → No change

Past Perfect Continuous → No change

★Additional information:

★There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:-

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

★For example:-

Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :-

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

★Related information:-

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb