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Change the following from Indirect to Direct speech----He said he was going out. *​

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Answer: He said, "I am going out."

Explanation: direct speech describes when something is repeated EXACTLY as it was. Indirect speech shares the same information but it involves reporting or describing what was said by someone.

Required Answer

  • He said, "I am going out".

Know more:

❒ Reported Speech:

➺ Reported Speech is a way of words spoken by a person are put in our own words or the exact words spoken by a person are used.

❒ There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:

a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.

b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.

❒ Related information :

  • The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.

  • The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb

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❍ How verbs change in reported speech?

[tex]\begin{gathered}\begin{gathered}\boxed{\boxed {\begin{array}{ |c |c|} \sf{\bf{\underline{Direct \: Speech}}}&\sf{\bf{\underline{Indirect \: Speech}}} \\ \\ \sf{Simple \: present} & \sf{Simple \: past} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: continuous }& \sf{Past \: continuous} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: perfect}& \sf{Past \: Perfect} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: perfect \: continuous }&\sf{Past \: Perfect \: continuous} \\ \\ \sf{Simple \: past}&\sf{Past \: perfect} \\ \\ \sf{Past \: \: perfect }&\sf{Past \: Perfect } \end{array}}}\end{gathered}\end{gathered} [/tex]

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