Direct and Indirect Speech

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Direct Speech : Direct Speech generally have Actual words of Speaker.

Indirect Speech : In indirect speech we convey the speaker message to some other one in own words.

Basic Procedure to change a direct sentense into indirect sentense :-
1).Remove inverted commas and simple comma.
2). Add that in place on single comma
3). Change the Tense (as described below)
4). Channge the pronoun of direct speech
5). change the time



Examples :

Direct	Indirect
He said to me , "this is a book"	He told me that, that was a book.
She said to me, "Is this a book?"	She asked me if, that was a book.
She said to me, "Fetch me a bucket of water"	She ordered me , to fetch a bucket of water.
She said , "Chandan, open the window please"	She requested chandan , to open the window.
She said , "The Sun rises in the East"	She said that, The Sun rises in the East.

Tense	Direct speech	Indirect Speech
	Simple Present	Simple Past
	Present Continuous	Past Continuous
	Present Perfect	Past Perfect
	Present Perfect Continuous	Past perfect continuous
	Simple past	Past Perfect
	Past Continuous	Past perfect Continuous
	Future	Present as per situation/condition
	Future Continuous	Continuous as per Condition

Present tense	The Girl said, "i like to eat Chocolate" लड़की ने कहा, मुझे चॉक्लेट खाना पसंद है	The Girl said, That she liked to eat chocolate. लड़की ने कहा,की उसे चॉक्लेट खाना पसंद हैं
Past tense	He said, "i had a nightmare Last Night" उसने कहा, कल रात मैने बुरा खवाब देखा	He said that he had a nightmare the previous night. उसने कहा की कल रात उसने बुरा खवाब देखा
Past tense	He said, "i bought a bike" उसने कहा, मैने एक मोटेर साइकल खरीदी	He said that he had bought a bike. उसने कहा की उसने एक मोटेर साइकल खरीदी
Past tense	She said, "tina was swimming in the pool" उसने कहा , टीना पूल मे तैर रही थी	She said that tina had been swimming in the pool. उसने कहा की, टीना, पूल मे तैर रही थी
Future Tense	He said to them , "i shall pay your wages tomorrow" उसने उनसे कहा, मैं तुम्हे तुम्हारी सॅलरी कल दूँगा	He told them that, he would pay their wages next day. उसने उनसे कहा की वो उनकी सॅलरी अगले दिन देगा

Important Points in Direct indirect

Direct	In-direct	Direct	In-direct	Direct	In-direct
Must	Had to	Might	Might	Ought to	Ought to
Should	Should	would	would	Could	Could
Is/Am	Was	Are	Were	Has/Have	Had
Can	Could	Will	Would	Shall	Should
May	Might	Now	Then	Tomorrow	The Next day
Did	Had done	Here	There	This	That
These	Those	Today	That day	Tonight	That night

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