Vice versa examples full#

He said to her, “Let’s go home.” – He suggested her that they should go home.She said to me, “Please don’t go there.” – She requested me not to go there.My teacher said to me, “Obey your parents.” – My teacher asked me to obey my parents.He said to me, “Go there right now.” – He ordered me to go there right then.Rahul said to his mother, “How do you do all these things together?” – Rahul asked his mother how she did all those things together.

I said to him, “What are you doing?” – I asked him what he was doing.She said to me, “Did you go there?” – She wanted to know whether I had gone there.

He said to me, “Do you know English?” – He asked me whether I knew English.

Narration change of Interrogative sentence

She said to her husband, “I want to go with you.” – She told her husband that she wanted to go with him.

Robin said, “I went to Delhi yesterday.” – Robin said that he had gone to Delhi the previous day.

These → those Advertisements Narration change of Assertive sentence Verbs of Reported speech (if the reporting verb is in past tense) (list 2)Ĭhange of time and place expressions in past tense (list 3) With ‘Let’ Told, ordered, advised, requested, asked to / not to Suggested, proposed that Optative Wished, prayed that Exclamatory Exclaimed in joy / sorrow / wonder / fear / disgust etc. Wh-question Asked, wanted to know, enquired If / whether Asked, wanted to know, enquired wh-word ImperativeĢ. List of Reporting verbs and linkers (list 1) Sentence Reporting verb (past) Linker Assertive Said, told That InterrogativeĢ. In indirect speech the pattern always comes to subject + verb + object.

Another important thing, the format of question (v + s + o) has changed to the format of a statement (s + v + o).

Vice versa examples full#

The question mark (?) has changed to a full stop(.).

Time and place expressions change if the reporting verb is in past tense.

As the reporting verb was in past tense, the verb in the reported speech will also be in past. ‘Whether’ is the linker added here as it is a ‘yes-no’ type question (Refer to list 1 below). Look, if the reporting verb in direct speech (said) is in past tense, the reporting verb in indirect speech (asked) would also be in past tense.Indirect Speech Speaker Reporting verb Linker Reported Speech Tina asked whether I was busy then. ĭirect Speech Speaker Reporting verb Direct speech Tina said “Are you busy now?”

Tina asked me whether I was busy then.

A direct speech can be transformed into an indirect speech and vice versa using a suitable reporting verb and a linker depending on the sentence.