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Grammar pedant here:
Direct/reported speech: "How would you know?"
Indirect speech: He asked her how she would know
or
He asked her how she knew.
Word order is v important. It switches.
Direct speech with speech marks uses one tense which in indirect speech, shifts one tense back & lacks speech marks. We also drop the qustion mark.
NOT he asked her how she knows, or he asked her how would she know.
What else can I help you with?
How do you change direct speech to indirect speech of pronouns?
To change direct speech to indirect speech for pronouns, you generally need to replace the pronouns with their corresponding indirect or reported speech pronouns. For example, 'I' in direct speech would change to 'he' or 'she' in indirect speech depending on the gender. Ensure that the pronouns match the subject of the reported speech and maintain the correct tense and meaning of the original statement.
Exercises on direct and indirect speech?
Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I am going to the store," said Mary. Indirect speech: Mary said that she was going to the store. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I will help you with your homework," Tom promised. Indirect speech: Tom promised to help me with my homework. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I have finished my work," John stated. Indirect speech: John stated that he had finished his work. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "We are going to travel next month," they told us. Indirect speech: They informed us that they were going to travel the following month.
How do you change direct speech into indirect speech if the statement is imperative?
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.
What are direct speech and indirect speech?
Direct speech involves quoting and quoted speech, where as indirect speech involves reporting speech and reported speech "'I saw everything,' said Bill" is an example of direct speech. "Bill said that he saw everything." is an example of indirect speech.
What is your name change to indirect speech?
My name changes to the third person in indirect speech.
How do you change direct speech to indirect speech of pronouns?
To change direct speech to indirect speech for pronouns, you generally need to replace the pronouns with their corresponding indirect or reported speech pronouns. For example, 'I' in direct speech would change to 'he' or 'she' in indirect speech depending on the gender. Ensure that the pronouns match the subject of the reported speech and maintain the correct tense and meaning of the original statement.
Where you put if in indirect speech?
I don't know what I will do if I dont find a job soon. If I had known about it, I would have done something to help his pain.
Exercises on direct and indirect speech?
Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I am going to the store," said Mary. Indirect speech: Mary said that she was going to the store. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I will help you with your homework," Tom promised. Indirect speech: Tom promised to help me with my homework. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "I have finished my work," John stated. Indirect speech: John stated that he had finished his work. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: Direct speech: "We are going to travel next month," they told us. Indirect speech: They informed us that they were going to travel the following month.
How do you change direct speech into indirect speech if the statement is imperative?
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.
What is a change in indirect speech?
A change in indirect speech happens when there are changes in time people, or place. The changes happen when you go from direct speech to indirect speech and changes include changing from now to then or at that time.
What are direct speech and indirect speech?
Direct speech involves quoting and quoted speech, where as indirect speech involves reporting speech and reported speech "'I saw everything,' said Bill" is an example of direct speech. "Bill said that he saw everything." is an example of indirect speech.
What is your name change to indirect speech?
My name changes to the third person in indirect speech.
Why do you use a comma in indirect and direct speech?
In direct speech, a comma is used to separate the reporting verb from the speaker's actual words. In indirect speech, a comma is used before the beginning of the reported speech to indicate the change from direct to indirect speech.
What is a reported or indirect speech?
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.
Change this sentence into indirect speech she said would that i were rich?
She said that she wished she were rich.
Why you change said to in told at the place of indirect?
What you want to know is not really clear, but if you are inquiring about the need of changing "say" to "tell" in indirect speech I must tell you there is not.
Pattern of direct and indirect speech?
definition direct and indirect statement
