Rules for converting Direct to Indirect Speech
Let us consider the following sentence
Radha said, “There is a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata”.
This is an example of direct speech. Now the sentence when written in indirect speech will be as follows:
Radha told that there was a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata.
Let us now look upon the rules we need to keep in mind while converting a sentence in direct speech to a sentence in indirect speech.
The Rules for converting Direct to Indirect Speech are as follows:
- Remove the inverted commas or quotation marks from the words spoken by the speaker in an indirect speech.
Eg. Radha said, “There is a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata”. (Direct Speech)
Radha told that there was a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata. (Indirect Speech)
- Use the conjunction “that” between the reporting verb and reporting speech in an indirect speech.
Eg. Radha said, “There is a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata”. (Direct Speech)
Radha told that there was a beautiful eco-tourism park in Kolkata. (Indirect Speech)
- Changing the tense of the reported speech.
- Changing the Pronoun of reported speech.
- Changing the time.
