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Grammar: Reported Speech

English · CBSE Class 9 · English Medium · 17 questions and answers

Sample questions

Q: What is reported (indirect) speech?

A: Reporting what someone said without using their exact words or quotation marks.

Q: What is direct speech?

A: Repeating the exact words of the speaker within quotation marks.

Q: Convert to indirect: He said, 'I am busy.'

A: He said that he was busy.

Q: In reported speech, present tense usually changes to which tense?

A: The corresponding past tense.

Q: How does 'will' change in reported speech?

A: 'Will' changes to 'would'.

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