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How to change the tense of Reported Verb? E.g Ram says, "I shall go to Patna." - Direct Speech Present tense                    Future tense Ram says that he will go to Patna. - Indirect Speech Present tense                    Future tense You have said to Ravi, "You were my good friend." - Direct Speech     Present tense                                      Past tense You have told Ravi that he was your good friend. - Indirect Speech      Present tense                                      Past tense She will say to him, "I did not play Ludo." - Direct Speech      Future tense                         ...

What are Direct and Indirect Speech? There are two parts of Direct Speech There are three general rules to convert a Direct speech into Indirect. Change of Person Change of Tense Change of Other Parts of Speech These rules are applied in Reported Speech. Converting a Direct speech into Indirect we change in Reporting Speech "said to" into "told" "says to" into "tells" "say to" into "tell" "inverted commas" into "that" Tell, tells, told are transitive verbs. They need an object. If " to " is not used after " say, says or said ", they can't be changed into " tell, tells or told. " How to change persons in Reported Speech Here is the table of case.. E.g.             They say to us, " You are our friends." - Direct Speech In the above speech you can see that there are two words " You " and " Our ...