1. Indirect Speech: Mother asked the boy to come there soon. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration  

    Indirect Speech: Mother asked the boy to come there soon.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  2. Indirect Speech: My mother advised me not to tell a lie. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My mother advised me not to tell a lie.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  3. Indirect Speech: My mother asked me if I was going to school that day. Explanation: When the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech is in the present continuous tense, then the indirect (reported) speech will change into the past continuous tense. Present Continuous Tense > PaRead more

    Indirect Speech: My mother asked me if I was going to school that day.

    Explanation: When the reporting verb is in the past (said) and the direct speech is in the present continuous tense, then the indirect (reported) speech will change into the past continuous tense.

    Present Continuous Tense > Past Continuous Tense.

    And if the sentence is interrogative, we use the reporting verbs – asked, enquired, etc.

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    Indirect Speech: My mother asked me not to waste my time. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My mother asked me not to waste my time.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  5. Indirect Speech: My father told me that love is blind. Explanation: When the reported clause of a direct speech is a universal truth or any historical event or habitual action, then the tense of the indirect speech doesn't change, no matter in whatever tense the reporting verb is. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My father told me that love is blind.

    Explanation: When the reported clause of a direct speech is a universal truth or any historical event or habitual action, then the tense of the indirect speech doesn’t change, no matter in whatever tense the reporting verb is.

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  6. Indirect Speech: My father asked me to go then. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My father asked me to go then.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  7. Indirect Speech: My father asked me not to run in the son. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My father asked me not to run in the son.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  8. Indirect Speech: My father told me not to laugh at the old begger. OR My father forbade me from laughing at the old begger. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish, forbade, etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn NarrRead more

    Indirect Speech: My father told me not to laugh at the old begger.

    OR

    My father forbade me from laughing at the old begger.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish, forbade, etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  9. Indirect Speech: My father advised me to never give up. Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence. Learn Narration

    Indirect Speech: My father advised me to never give up.

    Explanation: While reporting imperative sentences we use reporting verbs like ask, request, beg, order, advise, wish etc to match the mood of the sentence.

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  10. Indirect Speech: My father said that honesty is the best policy. Explanation: When the reported clause of a direct speech is a universal truth or any historical event or habitual action, then the tense of the indirect speech doesn't change, no matter in whatever tense the reporting verb is. Learn NaRead more

    Indirect Speech: My father said that honesty is the best policy.

    Explanation: When the reported clause of a direct speech is a universal truth or any historical event or habitual action, then the tense of the indirect speech doesn’t change, no matter in whatever tense the reporting verb is.

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