Question

"why are you late?",asked manager "because I overslept ", replied the clerk change into Indirect speech​

Answer 1

Answer:

the manager asked why was he late ,he replied that he over slept..

Answer 2

The manager asked the clerk why he was late. The clerk replied that it was because he overslept.

• Indirect speech is a form of speech that is used when one seeks to report what a person said, without necessarily using the same words.
• The primary differentiating factor between direct and direct speech is the use of inverted commas to refer to the exact words of the person in direct speech.
• When one uses indirect speech to report what a person said, one almost always changes the tense of the sentence to the past tense after removing the inverted commas.
• However, this isn't true when one reports a universal truth in indirect speech. In that case of exception, one keeps the sentence in the simple present tense.

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