How to convert indirect to direct speech?
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How to convert indirect to direct speech?
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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.
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Indirect Speech Conversion Direct Speech Condition
Present Tenses in the Direct Speech are changed into Past Tense. If the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense.
Do Not Change Tense of reported Speech in Indirect Speech sentence If in direct speech you find say/says or will say.
Direct speech the words within the quotation marks talk of a universal truth or habitual action.
The reporting verb is in a present tense.