Question

i) Modal Auxiliary-
I used to go to collect 60 rupees per month.
(Rewrite the sentence using modal auxiliary ‘would’)
ii) Reported Speech-
Principal Bhave said, “Mashelkar if you focus your energies like this, you can burn anything in the world.”
(How will Mashelkar report this to his friend?)

Answer 1

Hint: Modal auxiliaries are also known as helping verbs that are used with the main verb to express a particular mood, time, or tense.
Some of the rules to be kept in mind while changing the direct speech into indirect speech-
The quotations marks are replaced with ‘that’.
We change the tenses of the verbs. (Usually in the past tense)
Make sure to use the appropriate pronouns.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 i) We use the modal auxiliary ‘would’ in place of will for things that happened in the past.
Let’s solve the question:
I would go to collect 60 rupees per month. Here, we have replaced used to with ‘would’, as would acts as a helping verb with the main verb ‘go’.

ii) Direct speech refers to the original words of a speaker in quotation marks, whereas Indirect speech refers to the words spoken by the speaker in the past, therefore there is a change in the tense of the verbs.
Example:
Direct speech- The boy said,” We shall visit the park.”
Indirect speech- The boy said that they should visit the park.
Now, let’s solve the question:
Principal Bhave told me that if I focused my energies like that, I could burn anything in the world. Here, we can see a few changes; The quotation marks have been replaced with ‘that’, use of the pronoun ‘I’, and change in the tense of the verbs.

Note: We do not change the tense of the verb, if the reporting verb is in the present tense or future tense (say, will say). We can also use shall and should in place of will and would to reduce formality.