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➨ He said, "I have written their letter." ➨ He said that he had written their letter.________________________________ ❍ Note :-- ✎ When the sentence of Direct Speech is in Present Perfect Tense and the REPORTING verb is in Past Tense form; in Indirect Speech, the sentence should be CHANGED into Past Perfect Tense.
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❒ Types of Narration :-____________________________________________ ❒ Direct Narration :-- ➬ In Direct Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed in the same way that it is said by the speaker i.e, with speech marks and using exactly the same words.
- ➬ The words of the speaker are kept within Inverted Comma (" ") in Direct Narration and there we need ti use Comma (,) between the Reporting Verb and Direct Narration.
- ➬ The verb that introduce the Direct Narration is called Reporting Verb.
____________________________________________ ❒ Indirect Narration :-- ➬ In Indirect Narration, the words of the speaker is expressed WITHOUT speech marks and without necessarily using exactly the same words, keeping the meaning same.
- ➬ Unlike Direct Narration, there is the need of using "that" or any necessary conjunction INSTEAD of the the Comma (,) in Indirect Narration.
- ➬ There is also needed some grammatical changes while CHANGING the speech from Direct Narration to Indirect Narration.
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