Turn the following sentences into indirect speech (any five) :
1. He asked, „When do you intend to make the payment?‟
2. „Do you come from China?‟ said the prince to the girl.
3. The poor man exclaimed, „Will none of you help me?‟
4. Aladdin said to the magician, „What have I done to deserve so severe a
punishment?‟
5. „Do you write a good hand?‟ the teacher said to the student.
6. „Have you anything to say on behalf of the accused?‟ said the judge
finally.
7. The king was impressed with the magician and asked, „What can I do
for you?‟
8. She asked, „What is it that makes you stronger and braver than other
men?‟
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Questions:
Turn the following sentences into indirect speech:
1️⃣ He asked, “When do you intend to make the payment?”
2️⃣ “Do you come from China?” said the prince to the girl.
3️⃣ The poor man exclaimed, “Will none of you help me?”
4️⃣Aladdin said to the magician, “What have I done to deserve so severe punishment?”
5️⃣ “Do you write a good hand?” the teacher said to the student.
6️⃣“Have you anything to say on behalf of the accused?” said the judge finally.
7️⃣The king was impressed with the magician and asked, “What can I do for you?”
8️⃣ She asked, “What is it that makes you stronger and braver than other men?”
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Answers:
1️⃣ He asked when do they intend to make the payment.
2️⃣ The prince asked to the girl that do she come from China.
3️⃣ The poor man exclaimedly asked will none of them help him.
4️⃣ Aladdin asked to the magician what he have done to deserve so severe punishment.
5️⃣ The teacher aksed the student do they write good handwriting.
6️⃣ The judge finally asked that have they anything to say on behalf of the accused.
7️⃣ The king was impressed with the magician and asked what can he do for him.
8️⃣ She asked what is that makes them stronger and braver than other men.
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Some notes to know:-
⏩ Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.
⏩ Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.
Remember:-
⭐ The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.
⭐ In the reported speech words denoting first person (I, my,me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) change according to the object.
⭐ Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’ ; ‘now into then’ ; ‘here’ into ‘there’ ; ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’ ; ‘Yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.
When questions are reported:-
➡️ Indirect questions beginning with auxillary verbs are introduced by ‘if’ or ‘whether’.
➡️ Indirect ‘wh-questions’ are introduced by the ‘wh-word’ which begins the question in the direct speech.
➡️ Word order is inverted, e.g.
‘Why are you making noise?’ becomes ‘Why they are making noise’.
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