How do you change direct speech?
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How do you change direct speech?
Rules for conversion of Indirect Speech to Direct Speech
- Use the reporting verb, “say” or “said to” in its correct tense.
- Remove the conjuctions “that, to, if or whether etc”.
- Insert quotation marks, question mark, exclamation and fullstop, wherever necessary.
- Put a comma before the statement.
Will he help you change voice?
Will they help you? Given sentence is active voice, simple future interrogative. While converting to passive, “will” will remain the same. “Be” would be added before verb.
Did he help you change the passive voice?
“Were you helped by him” is the passive version of “Did he help you?”
Why did he do so change the voice?
The truth will be told to us by her?
How to convert a direct speech to indirect speech?
Basic rules to convert a Direct Speech to Indirect Speech. There are five basic things that have to be changed while converting a Direct speech to an I ndirect speech. To change the reporting verb according to the reported speech. To remove the inverted comma’s from the direct speech and replace them with an appropriate conjunction.
What is the indirect form of “she said she would help me”?
“She said that she would help me /him /us/her/them”.is the indirect form of the sentence. Reporting verb is in the past tense, so we will use “that”as a conjunction “I”will be changed according to the subject that is “She”. shall, will be “would,”according to rules of the tense.
Can ‘shall’ be changed to ‘should’?
In the given sentence, ‘shall’ cannot be changed to should as the speech is not reported by the original speaker. It would change to ‘would’. Thus, option C is the correct answer according to the rules. Was this answer helpful?
Why did I change “this” to “her” in this sentence?
Also, I changed “this” to “her” because when she asked her question, it really was about the project she was doing, The second sentence is much easier. The indirect form is almost identical to The first sentence would be: She asked him if he could help her with her project. Note that “with” is a better preposition than ‘in with “help”.