Speech change
11.
Direct Speech: ‘I have a boy coming from the orphanage,’ I said. I am the boy.‘ “You? But you’re small.’ ‘Size don’t matter chopping wood,’ the boy said.
Indirect Speech: I told the boy that I had a boy coming from the orphanage. He replied that he was the boy. I asked him if he was the boy and added that he was small. He told that size did not matter chopping wood.
12.
Direct Speech: ‘What’s puppet show?’ Lima asked her father. Father said, ‘Let’s go inside and you can see for yourself.’ Inside the tent Lima said, ‘How strange! A doll is dancing and talking!’ Father said, ‘A man behind the screen is moving the doll. Do you understand who is talking?’
Indirect Speech: Lima asked her father what puppet show was. Father proposed to Lima that they should go inside and she could see for herself. Inside the tent Lima exclaimed with surprise that a doll was dancing and talking which was very strange. Her father told her that a man behind the screen was moving the doll. He asked Lima whether she understood who was talking.
মো. জসিম উদ্দীন বিশ্বাস, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, ঢাকা রেসিডেনসিয়াল মডেল কলেজ, ঢাকা