Question

Change into reported speech ''I LIVE IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR ''SAID THE MOUSE

Answer 1

THE MOUSE SAID THAT IT  LIVED IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR.

Answer 2

To change the given sentence "I live in the house next door" into reported speech, we need to follow certain rules. When reporting someone's speech, we usually change the pronouns, tenses, and adverbs of the original statement.

The reported speech for the given sentence would be:

The mouse said that he lived in the house next door.

Let's break down the changes that were made:

1. Pronoun: The pronoun "I" is changed to "he" because we are reporting what someone else said.

2. Tense: The verb "live" in the present tense becomes "lived" in the past tense to match the reporting verb "said."

3. Adverb: There is no adverb in the original sentence, so no changes are needed in this case.

4. Punctuation: In reported speech, the sentence is usually enclosed in quotation marks or reported speech markers like "that" or "if." In this example, we used the word "that" to introduce the reported speech.

Therefore, the reported speech version of "I live in the house next door" is "The mouse said that he lived in the house next door."