Vikram said, “I haven’t seen Shyam since last week”.(Rewrite in the Indirect speech)
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Vikram said that he had not seen Shyam since last week.
Things to remember while attempting direct to indirect speech questions:
1. Do not write:
Vikram told that…
When using the word “told”, you need to mention another person. Vikram told someone something. So, that someone needs to be mentioned.
If you do not have that information, simply write:
Vikram said that…
2. Remember to change the tense to past tense, because you are reporting a conversation that has already taken place. It is now a matter of the past. So, stick to past tense.
3. Indirect speech normally does not contain any quotation marks, unless something very special is being mentioned.
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The following sentence is direct speech.
- After converting it to indirect speech, it becomes "Vikram said that he hadn't seen Shyam since the previous week."
- Here, the direct sentence is changed into its past tense due to the past tense of reporting verb.
- In the indirect speech, 'last week' changed into 'the previous week' as per the rule of direct to indirect speech conversion.
- Another example of direct to indirect speech is-
Direct speech- Rina said to her mother, ''I am leaving for school now."
Indirect speech- "Rina told her mother that she was leaving for school then."