Rules of Person Change of Reported Speech

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^st or 2^nd person)— They