Convert the following sentence to indirect speech: 'She said, I will help you.'
Practice Questions
Q1
Convert the following sentence to indirect speech: 'She said, I will help you.'
She said that she will help you.
She said that she would help you.
She said that she helps you.
She said that she helped you.
Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions
Convert the following sentence to indirect speech: 'She said, I will help you.'
Step 1: Identify the reporting verb in the sentence. In this case, it is 'said'.
Step 2: Remove the quotation marks around the spoken words.
Step 3: Change the pronoun 'I' to 'she' because we are reporting what she said.
Step 4: Change the verb 'will' to 'would' to reflect the change in tense.
Step 5: Combine all parts to form the indirect speech: 'She said that she would help you.'
Indirect Speech – Indirect speech is used to report what someone else has said without quoting their exact words, often requiring changes in verb tense and pronouns.
Tense Changes – In indirect speech, present and future tenses often change to their past forms, such as 'will' changing to 'would'.
