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turn it into indirect. "And daring is not part of his growing up. When I sense a flash of it in Mukesh I am cheered. "I want to be a motor mechanic" he repeats. He will go to a garage and learn. But the garage is a long way from his home. "I will walk," he insists." Do you also dream of flying a plane?" He is suddenly silent, "No," he says, staring at the ground. In his small murmur there is an embarrassment that not yet turned into regret."​

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When we change the sentence into Indirect speech the positions of subject and verb are interchanged, as in: He asked whether he was there. Once again the pronoun is changed to third person and the verb is changed to the past tense. The reporting verb can be asked or inquired to name but two.