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Direct and Indirect Speech: Name: Hassan Ali Registration Number: EE133009
Direct and Indirect Speech: Name: Hassan Ali Registration Number: EE133009
SPEECH
Me You
Direct Speech
The speaker said, ‘Be quiet and listen He urged them to be quiet and listen
to my words. to them.
She said to me, ‘Please wait here till I She asked me to wait there till she
return.’ returned.
Rules for changing indirect into
direct
The conversion of indirect into direct generally
presents no special difficulties, as following
example will show :-
Indirect : He inquired whether his name was
not Ahmed?
Direct : He said to him , ‘Is not your name
Ahmed’.
Sources
English book by wren & Martin