Direct and Indirect Speech Exercises for Interrogative Sentences
In case the sentence starts from the “Wh” question word, then no extra conjunction is used. While a sentence starts with reporting verb then at the conversion time if /whether is used as the joining clause. The reporting verb said/said to is changed to asked, demanded, ordered, and enquired as per the nature of the sentence. Here, we are sharing certain rules of Direct and Indirect speech for interrogative sentence conversions. In the table, we are sharing some words which are changed in Indirect speech. Words are changed in Indirect Speech to replace nearness from distance. Aishwarya Said, “They will be watering plants.”Īishwarya said that they would be watering plants.Ramesh said that he would go to Sri Lanka. They told that they had been living in Paris. Vidisha said that Ananya had taken pasta. Ayesha said, “Honey has left for school.”Īyesha said that Honey had left for school.Changes will always be made according to the given table only. Present Conditional(Subject+ would+V1+object)įuture Continuous(Subject +will/shall+be+V1 +ing+ Object)Ĭonditional Continuous(Subject +would+be+V1 +ing+ Object)ĭirect and Indirect speech exercises for TenseĬheck the Direct and Indirect speech examples for tense using the above table. Past perfect continuous(Subject +had been+V1 +ing+ Object)įuture simple(Subject+ will/shall+V1+object) Present perfect(Subject + has/have+V3+Object) Past Continuous(Subject +was/were+V1 +ing+ Object) Present continuous (Subject +is/am/are+V1 +ing+ Object) In the below table, we are sharing how tense changes into Indirect speech. They said that the sun rises in the east. They said, “The sun rises in the east.”.Direct and Indirect Speech Exercises for Reporting Verbīelow, we are providing Direct and Indirect Speech examples using reporting verb changes. If the direct sentence contains the universal truth, then it remains unchanged in the Indirect Speech. The tense of direct speech remains unchanged when the reporting verb is in the present or future tense. If the reporting verb is in the past tense, then the direct sentence is changed to its past tense. Changes as per Reporting VerbĪccording to the reporting verb, changes are made in the direct sentence or the sentence in inverted commas. Kanika said that she ought to avoid junk food. Kanika said, “I ought to avoid junk food.”.Modals that remain unchanged are: Should, might, could, would, and ought to.
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