Question

what is reported speech

Answer 1

REPORTED SPEECH MEANS A REPORT OF SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED IN PAST OR A REPORT OF SOME SPEAKERS'WORDS IS KNOWN AS REPORTED SPEECH.

Answer 2

Answer:

Indirect Speech gives the substance of the speaker’s

Explanation:

Direct Speech contains the actual words of the

speaker.

Eg: He said , ”My father has a shop in Mumbai”.

Reported Speech

Reporting Verb

Indirect Speech gives the substance of the speaker’s

words not the exact words.

Eg: He said that his father had a shop in Mumbai.

Rules for conversion from Direct to Indirect Speech

• Inverted commas are not used.

• The comma separating the Reported Verb from the Reported Speech is removed.

• The Reported Speech is introduced by some Conjunction (that, if, whether, what)

• Change the reporting verb ‘say to’ into ‘tell’ and the reporting verb ‘said to’ into

‘told’

• The Reporting verb changes according to the sense.

• The tense of the reporting verb is never changed.

• All kinds of sentences change into assertive ones.

• If the reporting verb is in Present or Future Tense, the tense of the Verb in the

Reported Speech is not changed at all.

Rules for change of pronouns

• Pronouns of the first person in the Reported Speech are changed into the person

of the subject of the Reported Verb

Eg: He said to me, “I haven’t got my glasses with me.”

He told me that he hadn’t got his glasses with him.

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• Pronouns of the second person in the Reported Speech are changed into the

person of the object of the preposition ‘to’ that comes after the Reported Verb

Eg: I said to him, “You have taken your turn.”

I told him that he had taken his turn.

• Pronouns of the third person undergo no change

Eg: I said, “He cannot stop himself from laughing.”

I said that he could not stop himself from laughing.

TENSE CHANGE - IN - INDIRECT SPEECH. (if the Reported Verb is in Past

tense)

• Present simple tense into Past simple

• Present Continuous tense into Past continuous

• Present Perfect tense into Past perfect

• Present Perfect Continuous into Past perfect continuous

• Past simple into Past Perfect

• Past Continuous into Past Perfect Continuous

• Past Perfect into Past Perfect

• Future simple, will into would

• Future Continuous, will be into would be