TET Exam 2019
English - Direct and Indirect Speech 006.
Procedure of changing direct speech into indirect speech:
🌟 Remove comma and inverted commas.
🌟 Put "that" between the reporting and reported speeches.(it is optional to put "that" between the reporting and reported speech)
🌟 Change the 1st letter of reported speech into small letter except for "I"
🌟 Change the pronoun of the direct speech accordingly.
🌟 Change the tense of the direct speech appropriately.
🌟 Change the words expressing nearness in time or places of the direct speech into its appropriate words expressing distance.
RULES FOR DIRECT SPEECH - INDIRECT SPEECH:
Rule 1:
Change the words expressing nearness in time or places of the direct speech into its appropriate words expressing distance.
thus - so
now - then
here - there
here after - there after
this - that
these - those
ago - before
hither - thither
hence - thence
to-day - that day
to-night- that night
next month - a month after
last night - the previous night
yesterday - the day before (or) the previous day
tomorrow - the next day (or) the following day
last week - the week before (or) the previous week
next week - the week after (or) the following week
last month - the month before (or) the previous month
Rule 2: Change of Pronouns
The pronouns of the Direct Speech are changed whereever necessary, according to their relations with the reporter and his hearer, rather than with the original speaker.
If we change direct speech into indirect speech, the pronouns will change in the following ways.
🌟 The first person of the reported speech changes according to the subject of reporting speech.
Example:
She says, "I am in tenth class."
She says, "I am in tenth class."
🌟 The second person of reported speech changes according to the object of reporting speech.
Example:
He says to them, "You have completed your job."
He tells them that they have completed their job.
🌟 The third person of the reported speech doesn′t change.
Example:
She says, "She is in eighth class."
She says that she is in eighth class.
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