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y Mark said, ‘I am going to meet my mother.’
Mark said that he was going to meet his mother.

y I said, ‘I spoke to them.’

I said that I had spoken to them.
y She said, ‘You must be careful.’

She asked me to be careful.

y Deepa said, ‘Will you help me?’
Deepa asked if I would help her.

y Mamta said, ‘I have forgotten your name.’
Mamta said that she had forgotten my name.

y Jayant and Harish said, ‘We love football.’

Jayant and Harish said that they loved football.

y Maya said to him, ‘You are handsome.’
Maya said to him that he was handsome.

y The Principal said, ‘Prasant, I want to meet your father.’
The Principal told Prasant that he wanted to meet his father.

4. As the actual words of the speaker were spoken in the past, narrating it in the present
needs a change in the tense. For example,

y Gaurav said, ‘I like chocolate ice cream.’
Gaurav said that he liked chocolate ice cream.

y Prateek said, ‘I am playing cricket.’

Prateek said that he was playing cricket.
y Meera said, ‘I was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour.’
Meera said that she had been stuck in a traffic jam for an hour.

Verb Tense Changes

From Direct Speech To Indirect Speech

simple present tense simple past tense

present continuous tense past continuous tense

simple past tense

present perfect tense past perfect tense

past perfect tense

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