In this, the speaker along with the reporter is the same. Step 3: Selection of pronoun for the object and the SubjectĬase 1: He will say to his friends, “I have started learning arts.” => He will tell his friends that he has started learning arts. On 2nd June 2015: He said that he would come the next day. On 1st, April 2015: ‘I will come tomorrow,’ he said. Place or time mentioned in the sentence should be changed accordingly to indicate the actual time or place. Step 2: Changes are done in the word expressing Place, Time, and Connection So, Ram says, ‘I go to the class every day’ will be changed to Ram says that he goes to the class every day. The 2nd rule here is that if the reporting verb is in the future or present tense then the tense is not changed. Thus, Ram said, ‘I go to the class every day’ will change to Ram said that he went to the cleverly day. Also, this is followed if the reporting verb is in the past tense. So, here the rule is for all verbs to be in the corresponding past tense. While in case 2, the reporting verb is given in the present tense. Also, in the 1st case, the reporting verb say is given in the past tense – said. In both the cases above, ‘say’ is the verb that conveys the action of speaking. Now, we will discuss each of these steps in detail Step 1: Deciding the conversion and tense of the verbĬase 1: Ram said, ‘I go to the class every day’.Ĭase 2: Ram says, ‘I go to the class every day.’
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