Question

Can you change the direct speech sentence what were you doing into indirect speech​

Answer 1

what have you been doing

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Required Answer

• What had been being done by me?

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?

`\begin{gathered}\boxed{\boxed {\begin{array}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}`

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