Question

You said to the mom," When will you start the business?"​

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Direct Speech :-

➨ You said to the mom, "When will you start the business ?"

• ✠ Indirect Speech :-

➨ You asked the mom when she would start the business.

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❍ Note :-

• ✎ In case of an interrogative sentence, the reporting verb "said/said to" in Direct Speech is changed to "asked" in Indirect Speech and the "wh-question word" is used as conjunction.

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KNOW MORE :

❒ Types of Speech :-

• ➬ Direct Speech

• ➬ Indirect Speech

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❒ Direct Speech :-

• ➬ In Direct Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.

• ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Speech and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Speech.

• ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Speech is called Reporting Verb.

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❒ Indirect Speech :-

• ➬ In Indirect Speech, the words of the speaker is expressed without speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.

• ➬ Unlike Direct Speech, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction instead of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Speech.

• ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while changing the speech from Direct speech to Indirect Speech.

Answer 2

❒ Given Sentence:

➺ You said to the mom, "When will you start the business ?"

❒ AnsweR :

➺ You asked the mom when she would start the business.

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❍ How verbs change in reported speech?

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❒ There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

➺ For example:

❒ Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :

• My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
• My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)

❒Related information :

• The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
• The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb