Question

Convert the direct speech into indirect speech. a) "We went fishing, but we did not catch anything," Rahul complained. b) Rahul complained that they had gone fishing but hadn't caught anything. c) Rahul said, "We went fishing, but we did not catch anything." d) Rahul complained that they went fishing but did not catch anything.

Answer 1

In this question, the direct speech sentences need to be converted into indirect speech. Options a) and c) involve converting the direct speech into indirect speech, whereas option b) is already in indirect speech, and option d) needs a correction in tense.

Step-by-step explanation:

In option a), the direct speech "We went fishing, but we did not catch anything," can be converted into indirect speech as Rahul complained that they had gone fishing but hadn't caught anything.

In option c), the direct speech "We went fishing, but we did not catch anything" can be converted into indirect speech as Rahul said that they had gone fishing but hadn't caught anything.

Option b) is already in indirect speech, so no conversion is necessary.

Option d) can be corrected by converting it from present simple to the past simple tense, so the correct conversion would be "Rahul complained that they had gone fishing but had not caught anything."

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