"what poison did you say,sir ?"doctor:"barium carbonate .""sir , I'll bring my syringe and the medicine."
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Answers
The given dialogue in direct speech can be changed into indirect speech as shown below:
The man asked the doctor politely what poison he had said. The doctor replied that he had meant barium carbonate. The man added he would bring his syringe and the medicine.
Explanation
First sentence was an interrogative case. When we convert an interrogative sentence starting with wh- word, we don’t add any conjunction such as ‘that’, ‘if’ etc. We just use the wh-word and turn the question into statement. The other tense and pronoun changes are applied as per the reported speech rules.
Second and third sentences were Simple Statements. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:
1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'
2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.
3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.