​Previous Knowledge

State the difference between Direct and Indirect Speech with a suitable example.

​Learning Objectives

To identify the rules of reported speech.

To apply the rules and change the sentences from Direct to Indirect Speech.

​Rules of Conversion

​ Changes – Direct to Indirect speech

1.Quotation marks are omitted.

2. The comma is replaced with the conjunction   ‘that’.

3. The reporting verb ‘said to’ changes to ‘told’.

4.  The tense of the verb in the reported speech ( Simple present) changes to (Simple past) .

5. The first person pronoun ( I ) changes to third person pronoun ( she) and the second person pronoun ( you) changes to third person pronoun( her).

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​Examples:

a. “We are the best students,” he said.

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    He said that they were the best students.

b. “ I read a book yesterday,” said the boy.

 The boy said that he had read a book the previous   day.