What is the indirect speech of he said to me I am your friend?

The given sentence is in direct speech. Direct Speech : He said to me, “I am your friend.” The given sentence, correctly converted to indirect speech, is : Indirect Speech : He told me that he was my friend.

How do you change who you are in indirect speech?

Rule 1. If the reported speech has 1st person pronoun (e.g., I, we, me, my, mine, us, our), and the reporting verb has 3rd person pronoun (e.g., he, she, they, it, his, her, their, its), the pronoun of the reported speech is changed according to the pronoun (subject) of the reporting verb.

What do you mean convert into indirect speech?

In linguistics, indirect speech (also reported speech or indirect discourse) is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said “I’m coming” would be direct discourse.

How to convert a direct speech to indirect speech?

Basic rules to convert a Direct Speech to Indirect Speech. There are five basic things that have to be changed while converting a Direct speech to an I ndirect speech. To change the reporting verb according to the reported speech. To remove the inverted comma’s from the direct speech and replace them with an appropriate conjunction.

Is “I know her address” a direct or indirect sentence?

• Direct: “I know her address”, said John. • Indirect: John said that he knows/knew her address. In this Indirect Speech, both the past tense and the present tense make the sentence a correct one. • Direct: The teacher said, “The earth goes round the sun.”

What tense does ‘I’ change in inidirect reported speech?

‘I’ will change, as per the subject of reporting part, into ‘she’. Tense in inidirect reported speech will not change as verb in reporting part is in present tense. So we get: She says that she is ill. She says that she is I’ll.

Which past tense becomes the past perfect tense in indirect speech?

As a rule the simple past tense in the Direct Speech becomes the past perfect tense in Indirect Speech. • Direct: He said, “His horse died in the night.”