Question

“Try to sleep,’ said Sue, “I have to paint an old miner. I will call Behrman up to be my model.” change into indirect speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

Sue advised to sleep and she said that she had to paint an old miner and would call Behrman up to be her model.                                                        

Explanation:

• In linguistics, indirect narration refers to the grammatical construction often adapted for reporting the speech or words of the speaker without altering the meaning.  

• The indirect narration also spelt as reported speech use no quotation or speech marks and is presented with some modifications conveying the same meaning.

• The grammatical construction of the reported clause depends on whether the speaker/doer is reporting a statement, advice, command or a question.

• When creating indirect from direct/ repeating speech, the simple past tense will be changed into the past perfect tense, first-person & pronoun (I, my, me, mine, we, our, us, ours) & reporting Verb Subject (doer) of person, number changes according to gender and words showing nearness of time or position changes.

• In an imperative sentence the reporting verb is changed into request, beg, order, advise, instruct, or forbid etc.

• Hence the given sentence will get transformed into indirect speech as-

Sue advised to(to+infinitve) sleep and she said (that) she had to paint an old miner and would call Behrman up to be her model.  

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