Direct Speech To Indirect Speech For Imperative Sentences

 Direct Speech To Indirect Speech For Imperative Sentences

Direct Speech To Indirect Speech

Imperative Sentence

In impetative sentense when we are going change direct speech into indirect speech then the reported verb will be changed into another tense.

Linker - ' To '

In imperative sentences to change direct to indirect speech we have to use 'To' as a linker or connecter to remove the (,) comma and also the inverted commas("..").

To make Direct speech to indirect speech the 'Reporting Verb' change into this way 

1) To make a request the reporting verb 'said,said to,and says,' will be transffered into 'Requested'

said- said

said to-Requested

says-requests

2) To make a command the reporting verb 'said,said,says,' will be transffered into 'Commanded'.

Said-said

said to- commanded

says- commands

3) To make a order the reporting verb 'said,said to,and says,' will be transffered into 'ordered'.

said- said

said to - ordered

says- orders

4) To give a 'Advice' the reporting verb 'said, said to,and says', transffered into 'adviced'.

said- said

said to- adviced

says- advices

5) To give a 'suggest' the reporting verb 'said,said to, says,' transffered into 'suggested'.

said-said

said to-suggested

says- suggests

In this way the direct speech changed into indirect speech .

Here are some examples from direct speech to indirect speech for imperative sentences:

examples-

1) Ram said to me, "Please help us". ( direct speech)

Ram requested me to help them. ( indirect speech)

2) The manager said to the servant," Get out of the room". ( Direct Speech)

The manager ordered the servant to get out of the room. ( Indirect Speech)

3) The master said to his servant,"wash the table". ( direct)

The master ordered his servant to wash the table. (indirect speech)

4) My father said to me,"obey the trafic rules'. ( direct speech)

My father adviced me to obey the trafic rules. ( indirect speech)