Question

Tina said, “I may postpone the trip to the next year.”
convert to reported speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

Tina informed that she might postpone the trip to the following year.

Explanation:

In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.

Answer 2

The answer is as follows:

Tina said that she might postpone the trip to the following year.

Direct and Indirect Speech

• Direct speech refers to the sentences where the speaker is directly speaking the sentence. In the direct speech, the speech is kept in double quotation marks.

• Indirect speech refers to the sentence where someone else is repeating the speech of the speaker. It is also called the reported speech since it is reported by someone else.

• The reporting verb in the given sentence is in the past tense. Thus, the speech will also turn to past tense in the indirect speech. Hence 'may' changes to 'might.'

• 'I' changed to 'she,' and 'next year ' changed to 'the following year.'

• In indirect speech, the reporting clause and the subordinate clause  are joined by 'that.'

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