CBSE Class 6 Answered

Reporting can be in 4 ways:

-Statements

-Questions 

-Commands/Requests

-Exclamatory and wishes

The following words are changed when we convert Direct to Indirect:

Direct:                                     Indirect:

Is/ am/ were                             Was/ were

Was/were                                 Had been

Has been                                 Had been

Has/ havve                               Had

Do                                             No change

Did                                            Had done 

Had done                                  No change

Will/ shall                                  Should

May/ can                                   Might could

Could/ Might/Should/Would      No change

Ought to/ Used to                     No change 

Must                                          Had to 

The change of time and place:

Direct                 Indirect

Now                   This

This                    That

These                 Those 

Her                      There

Ago                       Before

Yesterday             The previous day

Tommorow            The next day/ following day

Today                   That day

Tonight                 That night

During change of sentences, remove the apostraphe and add that before the sentence. Eg:

Direct: I said, "My mother is my best friend".

Indirect: I said that my mother is my best friend.

In questions, said is to be converted to asked

In orders/Commands the word said is to be converted to ordered

In wishes the word can bye can be converted to bade