Question

Change into indirect speech

1) the players said, "our captain has injured himself badly."
2) The doctor said to the patient, "Do not smoke anymore."
3) my friend said,"let us meet the captain."
4) "the rain will soon stop and you can go out to play", said the mother
5) the man said to the policeman, "can you show me the way to the station?"

Answer 1

1) The players said that their captain had injured himself badly.

2) The doctor told the patient not to smoke anymore.

3) My friend proposed to me that we should meet the captain.

4) The mother said that the rain would soon stop and that we could go out to play.

5) The man asked the policewoman if she could show him the way to the station.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are two ways to relay someone's words:

• Direct (quoted) speech - the words are quoted exactly as they are spoken. It's always used with quotation marks.
• Indirect (reported) speech - the words are relayed without being explicitly quoted.

You can see some examples that could help you with the conversion of direct speech into indirect speech below. An important thing to be careful about are the tenses, as they often change in indirect speech.