Question

you said they were busy the whole day indirect speech​

Answer 1

"Topic – Narration"

Given Sentence:

• You said, "They were busy the whole day."

AnsweR:

• You told that they had busied the whole day.

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How verbs change in reported speech?

Direct Speech⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Indirect Speech

Simple present⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Simple past

Present continuous⠀⠀⠀Past continuous

Present perfect⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past Perfect

Present perfect Past perfect continuous⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ continuous ⠀

Simple past⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect

Past continuous⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀continuous

Past perfect⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Past perfect

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Suppose your teacher told you that you were the most intelligent boy in your class. You want to convey this to your parents. You can do it in either of these two ways:

1. My teacher said to me, “You are the most intelligent boy in the class.”
2. My teacher told me that I was the most intelligent boy in the class.

• In sentence 1, you have repeated your teacher's exact words. In order to make it clear that you are repeating the words actually spoken by the teacher, they are put within Quotation marks ("... ..."). This method of quoting someone is called Direct Speech or Narration.

• In sentence 2, you have put in your own words what the teacher said. This method of quoting someone is called Indirect Speech or Narration.

What is Direct Speech?

• When the exact words used by a speaker are reproduced within Quotation Marks, it is called Direct Speech.

What is Indirect Speech?

• When the substance of a speech is conveyed in the reporter's words, it is called Indirect Speech

Things to Remember in Direct and Indirect Speech:–

In Direct Speech -

1. The exact words of the speaker are put within Inverted Commas (“ ”).
2. The Direct Speech is separated from the remaining sentence by a Comma ( , ).
3. The first word of the Reported Speech begins with a Capital Letter.

In Indirect Speech -

1. No Inverted Commas are used.
2. No Comma is used to separate the Reported speech from the rest of the sentence.
3. A Conjunction, if necessary, is used to join the Reported Speech with the rest of the sentence.
4. The Tense of the Verb undergoes a change. (The Tense of the Verb in the Reported Speech is changed from Present to Past).

Answer 2

$\textsf{Given sentence:-}$

You said they were busy the whole day.

$\textsf{what \: to \: do?}$

Change narration of given sentence.

$\textsf{Required \: Answer:-}$

• You told that they had busied the whole day.

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More information:-

Direct speech:

• when the exact word used by a speaker are reproduced within Quotation Marks, it is called Direct speech.

Indirect speech:

• when the substance of a speech is conveyed in the reporter's words, it is called Indirect speech.

The exact words of the speaker which are put within Quotation Marks or Inverted Commas ("..") is the Reported Speech.

The verb that introduces the Reported Speech is called the Reporting Verb.

Rᴜʟᴇs ᴏғ Cʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ

⠀⠀Dɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ Iɴᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ Sᴘᴇᴇᴄʜ:

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★When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense, all Present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding Past Tenses.

★The Tense in Indirect Speech is NOT CHANGED if the words within the quotation marks talk of a universal truth or habitual action.

★Simple Present Changes to Simple Past

★Present Perfect Changes to Past Perfect

★Present Continuous Changes to Past Continuous

★Simple Past Changes to Past Perfect

★Past Continuous Changes to Past Perfect Continuous

★Future Changes to Present Conditional

★Future Continuous Changes to Conditional Continuous

⠀⠀⠀⠀Cʜᴀɴɢᴇ ɪɴ Mᴏᴅᴀʟs:

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⟶CAN changes into COULD

⟶MAY changes into MIGHT

⟶MUST changes into HAD TO/WOULD HAVE TO

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