we said to them ,shall we have been revising our course since January change into indirect speech
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Answer:
We asked them whether we should have been revising our course since January.
Explanation:
⇨ Direct speech is used to convey the actual words said by the speaker using inverted commas. For example:-
- Demi said to him, "Are we watching this live?"
- Laura said to me, "Can we help the old woman?"
⇨ Indirect speech is used to convey the words the speaker said without using inverted commas and in our own words.
- Demi asked him whether they were watching that live.
- Laura asked me if we could help the old woman.
To change the given sentence from direct speech to indirect speech,
✭ We omit the inverted commas conveying the words said by the speaker.
✭ We change the reporting verb according to the type of statement being spoken. If the statement is interrogative, we use the joining clauses 'if' or 'whether' to convey the sentence.
✭ Words like today, tomorrow, yesterday change to that day, the next day and the previous day.
✭ The tense of the sentence has to be changed to its corresponding past tense if the reporting verb is in the past tense. The tense of direct speech doesn't change if the reporting verb is in either future tense or present tense.
Answer:
we asked them, "we should have been revising our courses since january