To change an imperative sentence to reported speech, you would typically use a reporting verb such as "ask" or "tell" followed by "to + base form of the verb." For example, "She said, 'Please close the door'" would become "She asked me to close the door."
Reported speech is a way of representing someone else's words, thoughts, or beliefs. In reported speech sentences, the speaker reports or paraphrases what someone else has said without quoting them directly. Reported speech usually involves a change in pronouns, tenses, and sometimes word order.
You would change "I saw him just now" into reported speech by saying "I said that I had seen him just then."
To turn direct speech to reported speech, you need to change the pronouns and verb tenses, and often introduce reporting verbs like "said" or "told." For example, a direct speech sentence like "She said, 'I am going to the store.'" can be turned into reported speech as "She said that she was going to the store."
To change an imperative statement from direct to indirect speech, you usually use a reporting verb like "asked" or "told" followed by an indirect object. For example, "Go to the store" in direct speech becomes "He told me to go to the store" in indirect speech.
The sentence is an imperative sentence because it gives a command or instruction.
direct speech: a speech or a sentence quoted from a sentence somebody had spoken or am speaking. using inverted commas(" ") reported speech: a report of what somebody had said before. direct speech: a speech or a sentence quoted from a sentence somebody had spoken or am speaking. using inverted commas(" ") reported speech: a report of what somebody had said before.
To change an imperative statement from direct to indirect speech, you usually use a reporting verb like "asked" or "told" followed by an indirect object. For example, "Go to the store" in direct speech becomes "He told me to go to the store" in indirect speech.
Reported speech is a way of representing someone else's words, thoughts, or beliefs. In reported speech sentences, the speaker reports or paraphrases what someone else has said without quoting them directly. Reported speech usually involves a change in pronouns, tenses, and sometimes word order.
You would change "I saw him just now" into reported speech by saying "I said that I had seen him just then."
In "he said that he was tired," the word 'that' is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a noun clause ('that he was tired'). It functions as a connector between the main clause ("he said") and the subordinate clause ("he was tired").
Reported or indirect speech is when we report what someone else has said. For example the following sentence are in direct speech: "The rain has stopped" he said. "I will go out" she replied. The same conversation in reported speech: He told her that the rain had stopped. She replied that she would go out.
This sentence is an imperative sentence so the subject is implied and the rest of the sentence is the predicate.
The word have at the beginning of a sentence is always a verb: sometimes a main verb in the imperative; sometimes a helping/auxiliary verb.Main imperative verb: Have a good time at the party!Helping/auxiliary verb: Have you ever seen the Eiffel Tower?
The type of sentence you provided is not grammatically correct. It seems to be missing a subject. A corrected version could be "You were nervous on the day of the speech." This is a declarative sentence.
She wished she wasn't so rude to her teachers.
This is best understood with an example- Q- change into reported: "Why are you doing this?" she asked me. The answer is: She asked me why I was doing that. Requests are reported in the same way. Ex. Q- change into reported: "Please close the door," she said to me. Answer- She requested me to close the door. Remember that if the question in direct speech is in present tense, the reported speech should be in past tense.
The word imperative is an adjective. It is another word for essential.