Question

Rewrite in reported speech:

Ram said, "You are late today."
He said, "I will write a letter tomorrow."
He said to me, "I can easily beat you in the match.'
The mother said to her little girl, "I have told you not to play with fire."
Options:
A) 1. Ram said that I was late that day.
B) 2. He said that he would write a letter the next day.
C) 3. He told me that he could easily beat me in the match.
D) 4. The mother warned her little girl not to play with fire.

Answer 1

The student's question involves converting direct speech to reported speech. The proper conversions for the given sentences are 'Ram said that I was late that day,' 'He said that he would write a letter the next day,' 'He told me that he could easily beat me in the match,' and 'The mother warned her little girl not to play with fire.'

Step-by-step explanation:

The student has asked how to rewrite sentences in reported speech. When converting direct speech into reported speech, the tense often changes and the sentence may require additional modifications, especially with regards to time and place. Here are the correct transformations:

He said to me, "I can easily beat you in the match." Rewritten: He told me that he could easily beat me in the match.

Thus, the correct reported speech transformations for the given sentences are options A, B, C, and D as listed in the question.

Answer 2

Ram said that I was late that day.

He said that he would write a letter the next day.

He told me that he could easily beat me in the match.

The mother warned her little girl not to play with fire.

All options are correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

In reported or indirect speech, the original speaker's words are transformed to fit grammatically and contextually. In the given sentences:

"Ram said, 'You are late today'" becomes "Ram said that I was late that day."

"He said, 'I will write a letter tomorrow'" transforms to "He said that he would write a letter the next day."

"He said to me, 'I can easily beat you in the match'" becomes "He told me that he could easily beat me in the match."

"The mother said to her little girl, 'I have told you not to play with fire'" changes to "The mother warned her little girl not to play with fire."