Rules of Person Change of Reported Speech

Sep 16, 2022 - 12:37

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	Direct narration Person of Reported Speech	Changed person of Indirect narration
1	(a) 1^st Person (I, We, my, our, us) ( b) We (id indicate mankind)\|	1. (a) According to gender and person of Subject of Reporting verb. (b) We (no changed) \|
2	2^nd Person (You, Your, Yours)	2. According to gender and person of Object of Reporting verb.
3	3^rd Person (He, his, him, she, her, hers, they, their, them, theirs, it, its, Rahim, Rahim’s etc.	3. 3^rd person (no changed)\|
4	Imperative Sentence’ Let us’ ‘us’	4. Reporting verb’ subject or object (a) (if 1^st person)—- We (b) (if 2^nd person )—- You (c) (if not 1^stor 2^nd person)— They